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Baltimore / Laura LippmanRead about another novelist on Box's list.
Lippman is a former journalist who grew up in Baltimore and returned to write about it from the inside out. Like a painter, she illustrates the mean and kind streets of this fascinatingly American city on a big canvas.
Suggested titles: Baltimore Blues, What the Dead Know, To the Power of Three.
The Page 69 Test: Another Thing to Fall.
The Page 69 Test: What the Dead Know.
The Page 69 Test/Page 99 Test: Life Sentences.
--Marshal Zeringue