Yet, something isn’t quite right and Maddie makes a fateful decision not long after she hosts a dinner for her husband that involves a classmate she knew from high school-a nerdy kid who is now a local newscaster.Ī couple months after this dinner, Maddie has left her husband and her son (who refuses to come live with her) and rented an apartment in a less desirable part of town (read – not so many white people.) She is trying to figure out what her next move is, while also trying to figure out how to support herself. She has married Milton Schwartz (who is both rich and reliable), birthed and raised a son, and manages her household with ease. The backbone of this novel is the story of Maddie Schwartz who seems on track to live a perfectly ordinary upper-class Jewish life in 1960’s Baltimore.

There is a Tess connection here but you’ll have to wait until the end of the book to discover it. I am a fan of Lippman’s-have been ever since I read the first Tess Monaghan book-Baltimore Blues.

What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell.Though Laura Lippman’s newest novel is not the first book I started in 2020, it is the first I finished, thanks to a four-hour plane ride and a pile of newly downloaded library books on my Kindle. 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. Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline. It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing.

Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND LUPITA NYONG'OĬleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. 'Lippman is a natural storyteller at the height of her powers.' Lee Childįrom the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of Sunburn

Lady in the lake book by laura lippman