Another Thing to Fall

A FORMER journalist, Baltimore-based Lippman knows her city – but not, perhaps, the world of the small screen series, which is the focus of her latest offering.

Perhaps an endnote to the novel holds the key to what went wrong – Lippman’s husband was a producer on the smash-hit series, The Wire, her inspiration for writing a novel about a television show that films in her home city.

The book starts well; feisty Tess Monaghan, private investigator, is out for her morning rowing session on the river, when she runs into a TV crew trying to catch the dawn light for a scene. After being inelegantly fished out of the water, she waits for her clothes to dry and watches the activity of director Flip Tumulty.