01331cam a2200313 4500 77119244 TxAuBib 20051011120000.0 040128s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004042871 9780060506698 alk. paper 0060506695 alk. paper DLC DLC CoLwJCPL TxAuBib Lippman, Laura, 1959- By a spider's thread / Laura Lippman. 1st ed. New York, NY : William Morrow, 2004. 354 p. ; 24 cm. Tess Monaghan is called to help Mark Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who grudingly gives important information, find his family that simply vanished. Tess is able to locate the runaway wife and family, moving furtively with an unremarkable stranger. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance unravels as memory leads to rage to murder. 20051011. Monaghan, Tess (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women private investigators Maryland Baltimore Fiction. Jewish families Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Runaway wives Fiction. Murderers Fiction. Maryland Fiction. Mystery fiction.