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黑料不打烊 will welcome New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman for the 34th Sister Cleophas Costello Lecture. Lippman, a crime novelist and longtime journalist, will deliver the lecture on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 7 p.m. in McGuire Hall on the Evergreen campus. The event is free and open to the public, but is required. A book signing will follow the lecture.

Lippman is the author of 26 critically and commercially acclaimed crime novels, two short story collections, a book of personal essays, and a children鈥檚 book. Twelve of her crime novels feature private investigator Tess Monaghan, a former Baltimore journalist who has fallen into a second career. Lippman, who grew up in Baltimore and attended city schools through ninth grade, was a reporter herself for 20 years, including 12 years at The Baltimore Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about 鈥渁ccidental PI鈥� Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001.

Lippman's latest novel, Murder Takes a Vacation, centers on Mrs. Blossom, who first appeared in the Tess Monaghan series. A so-called 鈥渃ozy鈥� mystery, it follows a Baltimore widow on her first-ever European vacation, where she quickly realizes people seem to think she knows something about a rare statue that disappeared years ago. Lippman is currently working on a sequel.

Lippman鈥檚 other novels include Baltimore Blues, Charm City, Butchers Hill, In Big Trouble, The Sugar House, In a Strange City, The Last Place, Every Secret Thing, By a Spider鈥檚 Thread, To the Power of Three, No Good Deeds, What the Dead Know, Another Thing to Fall, Life Sentences, I鈥檇 Know You Anywhere, The Girl in the Green Raincoat, The Most Dangerous Thing, And When She Was Good, After I鈥檓 Gone, Hush, Hush, Wilde Lake, Sunburn, The Lady in the Lake, Dream Girl, and Prom Mom.

Lippman鈥檚 work has been adapted for the screen twice so far. The Lady in the Lake, a 2019 crime fiction novel about a pair of unsolved murders in 1960s Baltimore, was adapted into a 2024 Apple TV+ miniseries of the same name starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram. Every Secret Thing, a 2004 novel about a terrible event that devastates three families, was adapted into a 2014 film of the same name starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning, Nate Parker, Common, and Ren茅e Elise Goldsberry. She is currently working on a project to adapt the Tess Monaghan series for television.

Lippman is one of the most laureled writers in the history of the crime genre, having won more than 25 prizes while being nominated for 30 more. This year, she was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor that has gone to Mary Higgins Clarke, Graham Greene, Stephen King, and Walter Mosley, among others. Her work has been awarded the Agatha, Anthony, Barry, Edgar, Gumshoe, Nero Wolfe, and Shamus awards. She also has been nominated for other prizes in the crime fiction field, including the Hammett and the Macavity. She was the first-ever recipient of the Baltimore Mayor鈥檚 Prize for Literary Excellence and the first genre writer recognized as Author of the Year by the Maryland Library Association.

A graduate of Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, MD, Lippman attended Northwestern University鈥檚 Medill School of Journalism. In addition to working for The Baltimore Sun, she has also worked for the Waco Tribune-Herald and the San Antonio Light. She is the daughter of the late Theo Lippman, Jr., a Sun editorial writer who retired in 1995, and the late Madeline Mabry Lippman, a former Baltimore City Schools librarian. Lippman resides in Baltimore and New Orleans.

At a private reception before the lecture, Rebecca Lange-Thernes, M.Ed. 鈥�91, will be presented with the School of Education鈥檚 Distinguished Alumni Award. Lange-Thernes is currently the Executive Director of Stocks in the Future, a financial literacy program focused on teaching underserved youth vital skills of managing money and understanding today鈥檚 global economy. Prior to focusing her career on the nonprofit area, she served as a classroom teacher for more than 20 years.

About the Sister Cleophas Costello Lecture Series  
The Mount Saint Agnes College Alumnae Association, Loyola's School of Education, and the Loyola Alumni Association host the annual Sister Cleophas Costello Lecture. Founded in the late 1970s and named in honor of the late Sister Mary Cleophas Costello, RSM, former president of Mount Saint Agnes College from 1953-1968, the lecture series features prominent women who embody the ideals of scholarship, leadership, and artistic ability.