Regular marked price: $24.95Discount Price: $6.99
Cost Savings: $17.96 (72%)Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
Format: Bargain Price
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: July 01, 2006
Publishing house: William Morrow
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 215184
Studio: William Morrow
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
No good deed goes unpunished . . .
Working as a consultant for a Baltimore newspaper, p.i. Tess Monaghan seems far removed from the unsolved slaying of a young federal prosecutor—until her well-meaning boyfriend, Crow, brings a street kid into their lives, a juvenile con artist who doesn't even realize he holds an important key to the sensational homicide. But Tess's ethical decision to protect the boy's identity no matter what could have dire consequences—especially when one of his friends is murdered in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity.
With federal agents threatening her with felony charges—and a killer threatening far worse—Tess couldn't deliver the kid to investigators even if she wanted to once Crow goes into hiding with his young protégé. So her only recourse is to get to the heart of the sordid and deadly affair while they're all still free . . . and still breathing.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers -
I love to find a new author with a character series that I can really enjoy and Laura Lippman goes into that list. Very entertainig book with interesting, somewhat eccentric, characters. A very good read
Rated by buyers -
A Tess Monahan novel. Review based upon the unabridged audio CD version.
Tess, Crow, and Lloyd, three characters caught up in a deadly web of poverty, murder, extortion, and double cross. Operating from three different backgrounds, with three divergent motives, they must find a way to work together or they will sink separately. Once Tess and Crow get the lay of the land, she assumes responsibility for the investigative duties, while Crow takes on the unfamiliar role of bodyguard to a street kid who doesn't make it easy. Unable to communicate, they're flying by the seat of their pants.
Like Elizabeth George's What Came Before He Shot Her, No Good Deeds takes a fresh, edgy approach to the affiliation of poverty, greed, and crime, by writing from multiple perspectives and delineating the roles of circumstance and psychological state. The reader is left in no doubt as to what happened and why it happened, not simply the who and how.
Ably narrated by Linda Emond, who has been criticized for her rendering of Southern accents, but as a Northerner, that's not an issue for me. Very enjoyable mystery, set in Baltimore.
Rated by buyers 
-
In Lippman's latest installment of the Tess Monaghan series, Tess has taken on a new gig as consultant to the local newspaper, where her job duties are to train reporters in investigative techniques, using three recent cases as paradigms. One of the cases Tess plans to focus on is the murder of a local federal prosecutor. When Tess's significant other, Crowe, befriends a homeless street kid, Tess inadvertently learns the young man has information about who killed the prosecutor. In an effort to inform the authorities without identifying her source, Tess sets up an interview between the young man and a reporter. Although she promises Crowe she will do everything she can to protect the young man's identity, federal agents insist she reveal her source. When Tess doesn't cooperate, they begin to threaten her family and hint at filing felony charges against her. Crowe goes into hiding with the young man, unaware that two federal agents have honed in and are after them, not to bring them in but to kill them.
The Tess Monaghan series remains a constant bestseller in PI series to date. Tess is a strong character, a young woman with an edge. To counterbalance her cynicism is her mate, laidback and amiable Crowe. Lippman excels at characterization, and with No Good Deeds allows the reader a deeper look into Crowe's persona and background. And, as always, spending time with Tess is a bonus. This must-read moves at a fast pace and has plenty of interesting characters.
Rated by buyers 
-
I will try to read more of her only because it took me
3 chapters to figure out who did what. Will never be a PD James.
Rated by buyers -
When PI Tess Monoghan and her boyfriend, Crow befriend (a little unwillingly on Tess's part) Lloyd, a tough, grey teenager from the ghettos of Baltimore, they put in motion a series of events which are connected with murder, drug dealing and extortion by people who should know better. Lloyd is living on the streets in a hand to mouth fashion, getting money for food from begging, scams and from skirting around the edges of a criminal element which uses young boys to do their dirty work. When the body of Federal Attorney, Gregory Youssef is found, Agents begin digging to find connections with drug dealers and Lloyd clearly is frightened by the name of Youssef, even though he claims never to have met him. Tess, Crow and their families are threatened when crooked Federal agents try to locate Lloyd and so are forced to go into hiding and to call in favours from family and friends, to remain alive. It's an exciting, pacy read which fans of Tess Monoghan will thoroughly enjoy.
Find other books like this one:
