Baltimore Blues

Until her newspaper, The Baltimore Star, crashed, Tess Monaghan was a first-rate reporter who knew her home town intimately – from historic Fort McHenry to the crumbling projects of Cherry Hill. Now gainfully unemployed at 29 she’s willing to do any freelance job to pay the rent – including a bit of unorthodox snooping for her rowing buddy Darryl ‘Rock’ Paxton.

In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the lawyer’s notoriety, and his trysts with Rock’s fianc�e, make the case front page news – and make Rock the chief suspect …