Since Laura Lippman’ s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “ essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “ special, even extraordinary, ” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “ She is simply a brilliant novelist. ” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.
