The last place
Subtitle: a Tess Monaghan mystery
By: Laura Lippman
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780380810246
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Tess Monaghan (Fictitious character); Family violence; Women private investigators; Fiction
Description: Someone is stalking feisty Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan. Tess is working for the foundation of moneyed college chum Whitney (who just got Tess involved in an escapade that has her in court-ordered therapy), investigating five seemingly unrelated open murder cases throughout Maryland to see whether there is a domestic homicide angle. Off the job, despite being happy with her younger boyfriend, Crow, Tess is having nightmares about seeing a former lover killed in front of her two years earlier. A Toll Authority cop who is obsessed with one of the murders (after finding the victim's decapitated head) becomes Tess's sidekick, and they follow a trail that eventually ties up all threads of the plot and leaves Tess with new nightmares.