The Girl in the Green Raincoat (Tess Monaghan #11 – Laura Lippman Free Audiobook

Written by Laura Lippman
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

intrepid Baltimore PI’s at-risk late-pregnancy bed rest into a compellingly edgy riff on Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Lovingly tucked up on her winterized sun porch, Tess marshals her forces-doting artist boyfriend Crow, best friend Whitney Talbot, middle-aged assistant gumshoe Mrs. Blossom, and researcher Dorie Starnes – to probe the disappearance of a chic blonde green-raincoated dog walker she’d been watching from her comfy prison. Tess also takes in the missing woman’s abandoned green-slickered Italian greyhound from hell, a miniature canine terrorist whose anti-housebreaking vendetta offers comic relief from Tess’s threatened pre-eclampsia, her obsessive unraveling of a complex scam, and her last-trimester spats with Crow about their future. Though postpartum Tess turns alternately weepy and shrill, that condition won’t last, and this entertaining romp leaves plenty of hints of detective-mother exploits to come.