Laura Lippman grew up in Baltimore and returned to her hometown in 1989 to work as a journalist. After writing seven books while still a full-time reporter, she left the Baltimore Sun to focus on fiction. The author of two New York Times bestsellers, What the Dead Know and Another Thing to Fall, she has won numerous awards for her work, including the Edgar, Quill, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity.
These are men of great wealth, and it attracts international attention when each of them mysteriously dies....This involves African witchcraft, modern-day occult, and a terrible creature that has been conjured by witchcraft to haunt the investigators of the murders.
A school shooting incident is not what it first appears to be, in Laura Lippman's mystery-thriller. A trio of teenaged girls is involved, but a dogged police detective quickly discovers how difficult it can be to get the straight scoop from strong-willed adolescent females.
These are men of great wealth, and it attracts international attention when each of them mysteriously dies....This involves African witchcraft, modern-day occult, and a terrible creature that has been conjured by witchcraft to haunt the investigators of the murders. 
