SOON TO BE A SERIES FROM APPLE TV ANew York TimesBestseller The reveredNew. Agent: Vicky Bijur, Vicky Bijur Literary. Read Lady in the Lake A Novel by Laura Lippman available from Rakuten Kobo. Lady in the Lake: A Novel by Laura Lippman Narrated by Susan Bennett Unabridged 10 hours, 44 minutes 4.0 (26) Audiobook (Digital) FREE With a B&N Audiobooks Subscription Cancel Anytime Paperback 14.99 eBook 1.99 Audiobook 0.00 Large Print 26.99 Audio CD 19. Lippman’s fans will devour this sophisticated crime novel, which captures the era’s zeitgeist while painting a striking portrait of unapologetic female ambition. 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. 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. 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. A stunning, multi-voiced, period piece tackling race, gender politics, and the volatility of mid 60s America from one. Maddie relishes her newfound freedom, renting an apartment downtown and starting an affair with a black patrolman, but she yearns for more.

And, as much as this is an atmospheric suspense story based on two true-crime cases, it's also a compelling female adventure tale of Maddie, at mid-life, coming into her own amidst a rich historical depiction of 1960s Baltimore.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. Chandler's The Lady in the Lake was a middlin' novel but Lippman's is a stunner, one that not only gives voice to that murdered 'lady in the lake,' but to a diverse crowd of Baltimoreans: Narrators include a jewelry store clerk, a beat cop and a player for the Baltimore Orioles. Cleo is the still center around which her living counterpart, a white Jewish woman named Maddie Schwartz, frantically orbits. Lippman is a natural storyteller at the height of her powers.

Laura Lippmans new standalone novel, 'Lady of the Lake, is one of the best novels Ive read in the last few years. For me as a reader, what's incontestable is the power that Lippman bestows on Cleo's post-mortem voice and presence. My Thoughts: Lady in the Lake takes the reader to mid-sixties Baltimore, spotlighting issues from the times.

Lippman has already weighed in in interviews and articles about her controversial decision as a white writer to adopt the voice of a black woman as one of her main characters.

And that's not Lippman's only act of appropriation. Laura Lippman's new suspense novel is called Lady in the Lake, a pretty straightforward purloining of the title of Raymond Chandler's fourth Philip Marlowe novel.

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