When a spiked story about a local mogul gets printed on page one anyway, Tess Monaghan is hired to figure out who is responsible for hacking the paper’s nascent computer system.  When said mogul apparently kills himself after a second story of his alleged malfeasance, Tess is able to poke some holes in the reporting, if not outright nail the culprit.  However, when the now out-of-work reporter also is found dead by suicide, Tess starts to think that everything is not adding up.  She picks up the investigation, trying to figure out who the killer is before the killer can find her.

The second entry in Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan series, Charm City, picks up nearly six months following the previous book. Reading a series in order is a new experience for me, so it’ll be a fun experience to see where this one goes.