Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

In addition to writing Laura Lippman teaches at Goucher College in Towson Maryland just outside of Baltimore. Her 2007 release What the Dead Know was the first of her books to make the New York Times bestseller list and was shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Dagger Award (see side box for more awards). C.