| Record Number |
804884 |
| ISBN |
9780062390011 (hardcover) |
| Author |
Lippman, Laura, 1959- author. |
| Title |
Lady in the lake : a novel / Laura Lippman. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
©2019 |
| New York, NY : William Morrow, [2019] |
| Pagination etc. |
340 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents note |
Includes author's note. |
| Summary 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. -- adapted from jacket |
| Subject |
Reporters and reporting -- Fiction |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| African American women -- Crimes against -- Fiction |
| Housewives -- Fiction |
| Journalists -- Fiction |
| Baltimore (Md.) -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F LIPP |
