NO GOOD DEEDS: Laura Lippman: William Morrow: 2006: Mystery: 343 pagesA desire to do a good deed puts Private Investigator, Tess Monaghan, and her soft hearted boyfriend, Edgar “Crow” Ransome, on the trail of the murder of an assistant U.S. Attorney.
Crow spends his time outside of work donating food to soup kitchens in the Baltimore inner city. When Crow’s tires are slashed in a con by a young Blackman named Lloyd Jupiter, Crow brings him home for a good meal and a warm bed. While there, Tess discovers by accident that Lloyd may know something about the still unsolved murder of Gregory Youssef, an assistant U.S. Attorney. Tess gives the information to the local paper on the condition that Lloyd will remain anonymous, but after a friend of Lloyd’s is murdered and Tess receives a visit from three menacing law enforcement agents avid to know her source, she knows she gotten herself, Crow and Lloyd into a dangerous situation.
A large portion of the book was devoted to how Tess could tell the truth to the three government agents without giving any information away, which got to be very dull after a while. The ending though had a few plot twists and enough action to make up for the boring parts. The biggest problem for me, though, was the huge amounts of profanity in the book.
AJ
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