Baltimore Blues is the first of the detective novels written by American writer Laura Lipman. Her works have already become famous in many English-speaking countries, making the author of the work in front of you one of the popular writers of the detective genre. The author describes the feelings of the main characters very realistically, making readers empathize with them. From the first pages of the book we watch with interest the development of events. Before us opens a vividly drawn world of criminal America, or rather, the events unfolding in Baltimore, one of the US cities in the state of Maryland.