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Baltimore Blues is the first in Laura Lippman's series featuring reporter turned private investigator Tess Monaghan. The novel begins with Tess a bit adrift--she has recently become unemployed when the newspaper she worked for went under. To pass the time, she spends her days running, rowing, and doing odd jobs for family members to earn some much-needed cash. Then her rowing buddy, Rock, asks her to do a little discreet spying on his fiancée, Ava, who has just not seemed like herself lately. After Tess witnesses a couple of sketchy meetings between Ava and her boss, the controversial local