The sugar house

Description:

A client named Ruthie — who seems to know Tess's father a little too well — 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 teenager runaway over a bottle of glue — and, a month into his prison term, he met the same fate as his victim. Following a precious few tantalizing clues, Tess sets off on a path that is leading her from Baltimore's exclusive Inner Harbor to the city's seediest neighborhoods. But it's the shocking discovery of the runaway's true identity that turns her hunt deadly. Suddenly a supposedly solved murder case is turning up newer, fresher corpses and newer, scarier versions of the Sugar House — places that look sweet and safe...but only from the outside.

subjects: Mystery,  Detective and mystery stories,  Tess Monaghan (Fictitious character),  Women private investigators,  Fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Monaghan, tess (fictitious character), fiction,  Private investigators, fiction,  Baltimore (md.), fiction,  Maryland, fiction,  Tess Managhan (Fictitious character),  Private investigators,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction, crime

Places: Baltimore (Md.),  Maryland,  Baltimore