Lady in the lake : a novel /
Laura Lippman.
- First edition.
- 340 pages ; 24 cm
Includes author's note.
1966, Baltimore. Last year Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. When she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl, it leads to a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star. This is Maddie's opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake. Cleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman who liked to have a good time. No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie. Cleo's ghost, privy to Maddie's poking and prying, wants to be left alone. --
9780062390011 (hardback)
2018058807
Reporters and reporting--Fiction. Women journalists--Fiction. Murder--Investigation--Fiction. African American women--Crimes against--Fiction. Housewives--Fiction. Journalists--Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction) Detective and mystery fiction.