Lady in the Lake
Výrobce: Kanzelsberger
EAN: 9780571339457
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young womanIn 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know?everyone, that is, except Madeline ?Maddie? Schwartz. Last year, she 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. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl?assistance that leads to a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing black woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake.Cleo Sherwood was a young black woman who liked to have a good time. No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie?and the dead woman herself. Maddie sets out to find the truth about Cleo's life and death, but Cleo's ghost, privy to Maddie's poking and prying, wants to be left alone. Maddie's investigation brings her into contact with people who used to be on the periphery of her life?a jewelry store clerk, a waitress, a rising star on the Baltimore Orioles, a patrol cop, a har
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