Laura Lippman
TESS MONAGHAN Mysteries:
Main Character: Tess Monaghan, Private Investigator, Baltimore 

1. Baltimore Blues   ‘97
2. Charm City   ‘97
3. Butchers Hill   ‘98
4. In Big Trouble   ‘99
5. The Sugar House   ‘00
6. In a Strange City   ‘01
7. The Last Place    ‘02 
8. By A Spider’s Thread   ‘04
9. No Good Deeds   '06
10. Another Thing to Fall    '08

STAND ALONES:

Every Secret Thing  '03
Like a Charm: A Novel in Voices   '04  (Short Stories)
To the Power of Three  '05
Baltimore Noire   '06   (Anthology Editor)
What the Dead Know    '07

Hardly Knew Her    '08 (Short Stories)
Life Sentences    '09