Lady in the Lake
'Haunting . . . Extraordinary.' STEPHEN KING
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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'A real triumph of storytelling and suspense.' Daily Mail
'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY
'Complex, hard-hitting and unflinching' Irish Times
'Aching, thoughtful, and compulsively readable.' Vanity Fair
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1966 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing.
Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline. When she hears about an unidentified body that's been pulled out of the fountain in Druid Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will finally get her name in print. What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell.
What readers are saying:
***** 'A twisty, thrilling, mesmerising ride. I couldn't put it down!'
***** 'It was a delight reading this book. I enjoyed the insight into each character. The mystery was always there, but with a different twist.'
***** 'It really grabbed me. . . more than a simple detective novel.'
***** 'The absolute best Lippman to date. . . This novel grabbed me in the first pages and didn't let go.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in 1960s Baltimore, this smoldering standalone from Edgar winner Lippman (Sunburn) trails Madeline Schwartz, an affluent 37-year-old Jewish housewife who separates from her husband after dinner with an old classmate reminds her that she once had goals beyond marriage and motherhood. Maddie relishes her newfound freedom, renting an apartment downtown and starting an affair with a black patrolman, but she yearns for more. After discovering the corpse of 11-year-old Tessie Fine and later corresponding with Tessie's incarcerated killer to determine his motive, Maddie leverages her story for an assistant's position at the Star. She dreams of becoming a reporter, though, and starts investigating a crime otherwise ignored by the newspaper: the murder of Cleo Sherwood, a young black woman whose body turned up in the Druid Hill Park fountain. Lippman relates the bulk of the tale from Maddie's perspective, but enriches the narrative with derisive commentary from Cleo and stunning vignettes of ancillary characters. Lippman's fans will devour this sophisticated crime novel, which captures the era's zeitgeist while painting a striking portrait of unapologetic female ambition.
