Tess Monaghan mysteries

When a lurid exposé mysteriously appears on the front page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light and causes a business tycoon to commit suicide in his garage, private investigator Tess Monaghan takes on the case.

Tess Monaghan has learned to survive the streets of Baltimore, first as a reporter and most recently as a private detective, but when she investigates the disappearance of a musician she once loved and lost, she will confront painful truths from her past, and evidence of a new and deadly killer stalking the city.

When a murder occurs during the annual visit of a cloaked individual to Edgar Allan Poe's grave, PI Tess Monaghan is drawn into unearthing a killer.

When the production of a Hollywood film in Baltimore brings mayhem and murder to the area, private investigator Tess Monaghan finds her job complicated by the acting skills of her numerous suspects.

The award-winning New York TimesBaltimore Blues, in an absorbing mystery that plunges the new parent into a disturbing case involving murder and a manipulative mother.On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity, although there was much skepticism...