Book Page

Yesterday, I picked up a copy of the May issue of Book Page from the library.  I like to go through it an circle book titles that I want to add to my TBR list and then reserve at the library.  

This isn't a good picture but this is the "hot list" of books for the month.  The book listed one up from the bottom is the new book by Laura Lippman.  

From Amazon:

Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working full time and published seven books about "accidental PI" Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Mayor's Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association. Ms. Lippman grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade. After graduating from Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Md., Ms. Lippman attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Her other newspaper jobs included the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San Antonio Light. Ms. Lippman returned to Baltimore in 1989 and has lived there since.

The new book out is called Wilde Lake which as you will notice is the name of the high school she attended.  It is also the high school my kids attended and the name of the section of Columbia in which we lived.  So I have got to read this book.  I have read most of Lippman's stand alone books and a few of her Tess Monaghan series.  

Several of her books take place in the Baltimore and Howard County area.  There is something special and exciting about seeing familiar places in a novel and even more fun to be able to make connections from the fiction to real life incidents.

I will read Wilde Lake.  How could I not?  I look forward to seeing my old stomping grounds as part of her story.