Baltimore
(Y1070)
From the trail you can see the Domino Sugars sign across the Inner Harbor. The Sugar House by Laura Lippman – Baltimore local Tess Monaghan thought she knew the Sugar House – the abandoned factory that remains a stubborn and defiant legacy of the city’s past – until a client named Ruthie asks the newspaperwoman-turned p.i. to investigate a year old “Jane Doe” murder and its grim aftermath. Ruthie’s low-life brother, Henry, confessed to killing a teenage runaway over a bottle of glue – and, a month into his prison term, met with the same fate as his victim. Following a precious few tantalizing clues, Tess’s hunt for the truth is leading her from Baltimore’s exclusive Inner Harbor to the city’s seediest neighborhoods – a hunt that turns deadly with the shocking discovery of the runaway’s true identity. Suddenly a supposedly solved murder case is turning up newer, fresher corpses and newer, scarier versions of the Sugar House – places that look sweet ad safe…but only from the outside.