Femme Fatale and other stories

indifference.

About the Author
    Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at the Baltimore
Sun
. She is the author of eleven Tess Monaghan books including
Baltimore Blues
,
Another Thing to Fall
, and
The Girl in the Green Raincoat
; five stand-alone novels, including
Every Secret Thing
,
Life Sentences
and
Don’t Look Back
; and a short story collection. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Edgar, Quill, Anthony, Nero Wolfe and Agatha awards. To find out more about Laura visit www.lauralippman.com .

Also by Laura Lippman
    The Innocents
    Don’t Look Back
    The Girl in the Green Raincoat
    Life Sentences
    Hardly Knew Her
    Another Thing to Fall
    What the Dead Know
    No Good Deeds
    To the Power of Three
    By a Spider’s Thread
    Every Secret Thing
    The Last Place
    In a Strange City
    The Sugar House
    In Big Trouble
    Butcher’s Hill
    Charm City
    Baltimore Blues

Copyright
    This short story collection is entirely a work of fiction.
    The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
    The short stories in this collection previously appeared in
Hardly Knew Her
. Copyright © 2008 by Laura Lippman.
    “Femme Fatale,” first published in
Geezer Noir;
copyright © 2006 by Laura Lippman.
    “What He Needed,” first published in
Tart Noir;
copyright © 2002 by Laura Lippman.
    “Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft),” first published in
Dangerous Women;
copyright © 2005 by Laura Lippman.
    “The Babysitter’s Code,” first published in
Plots with Guns;
copyright © 2005 by Laura Lippman.
    “Hardly Knew Her,” first published in
Dead Man’s Hand;
copyright © 2007 by Laura Lippman.
    “The Crack Cocaine Diet,” first published in
The Cocaine Chronicles;
copyright © 2005 by Laura Lippman.
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