The Lasy Place – Laura Lippman

When Whitney hires Tess to investigate unsolved murders to see if police overlooked domestic abuse to help push lawmakers to consider new laws to protect women, she instead finds a serial killer, one who now has Tess in his sights.  Working with a former toll officer forced into retirement due to his obsession with one of the murders, she tracks down the killer’s true identity.  Can she stop him before he comes after her?

The seventh entry in Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series, The Last Place, finds Tess more comfortable and settled with her life.  This turned into an interesting mystery, one which moved outside of the city of Baltimore and into the surrounding county.  I’ve got five more Tess novels to go, not to mention any other works in Lippman’s oeuvre, so there’s plenty to still get to.