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  May 2010

  About the Author

  LAURA LIPPMAN was a Baltimore Sun reporter for twelve years. Her novels have been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. A firstever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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  By Laura Lippman

  THE GIRL IN THE GREEN RAINCOAT

  I’D KNOW YOU ANYWHERE

  LIFE SENTENCES

  HARDLY KNEW HER

  ANOTHER THING TO FALL

  WHAT THE DEAD KNOW

  NO GOOD DEEDS

  TO THE POWER OF THREE

  BY A SPIDER’S THREAD

  EVERY SECRET THING

  THE LAST PLACE

  IN A STRANGE CITY

  THE SUGAR HOUSE

  IN BIG TROUBLE

  BUTCHERS HILL

  CHARM CITY

  BALTIMORE BLUES

  Copyright

  THE GIRL IN THE GREEN RAINCOAT. Copyright © 2008 by Laura Lippman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Lippman, Laura, 1959–

  The girl in the green raincoat : a novel / by Laura Lippman.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-06-193836-8 (pbk.)

  1. Monaghan, Tess (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women private investigators—Maryland—Baltimore—Fiction. 3. Pregnant women—Fiction. 4. Baltimore (Md.)—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3562.I586G57 2011

  813'.6—dc22

  2010036799

  EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780062042378

  11 12 13 14 15 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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