Rent Butchers Hill: A Tess Monaghan Novel

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan is ready to give up her PI career—until she's pulled back in by a case that encompasses the powers-that-be—a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children.

No sooner has Tess Monaghan hung her p.i.-for-hireshingle outside her new office on Butchers Hill when in walks Luther Beale. Once notorious as the vigilante homeowner who shot a boy for vandalizing his car, Luther has just gotten out of prison and says he wants to make amends to the kids who witnessed his crime. He needs to find them first, and that's where Tess comes in.

But as Tess starts to find the witnesses, they start dying. And now some ugly family business has reared its head, forcing her to confront the sins of her grandparents' past.

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