Laura Lippman is living her secret dream. It started in earnest when “an editor she describes as ‘a cold-blooded professional assassin.’ He told her she needed to work on her writing.” She says, “the secret, secret, almost never-stated endgame was … ‘I’m going to quit my day job and be a novelist.'” The first time she told her husband, “I told him I thought I could write full time. And I also told him that I thought I would be a New York Times best seller. I was really drunk, sitting at my kitchen table.” Last year, 10 years after […]