{"id":22653,"date":"2025-04-05T07:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22653"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:17:44","slug":"book-16-of-52-the-last-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/book-16-of-52-the-last-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 16 (of 52) &#8211; The Last Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22663\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thelastplace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22663\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thelastplace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thelastplace.jpg 324w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thelastplace-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lasy Place &#8211; Laura Lippman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.\u00a0 Working with a former toll officer forced into retirement due to his obsession with one of the murders, she tracks down the killer&#8217;s true identity.\u00a0 Can she stop him before he comes after her?<\/p>\n<p>The seventh entry in Laura Lippman\u2019s Tess Monaghan series, The Last Place, finds Tess more comfortable and settled with her life.\u00a0 This turned into an interesting mystery, one which moved outside of the city of Baltimore and into the surrounding county.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got five more Tess novels to go, not to mention any other works in Lippman\u2019s oeuvre, so there&#8217;s plenty to still get to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Working with a former toll officer forced into retirement due to his obsession with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8023,11964],"class_list":["post-22653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-laura-lippman","tag-the-last-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23478,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22653\/revisions\/23478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}