Lady of the lake lippman6/2/2023 Another chance event has her playing a part in the discovery of a young black woman’s disintegrating corpse in a fountain the victim is identified as Cleo Sherwood, dubbed “the lady in the lake” by the press. When a suspect is arrested for murder, Maddie writes to the accused man, and the prisoner responds with two letters containing incriminating information that Maddie parlays into an entry-level newspaper job. Sure enough, it’s Maddie who finds Tessie’s body near a wooded area. “I want to do something with my life.” While she works to obtain a divorce, Maddie decides to help look for Tessie Fine, a missing little girl whom the whole city has been searching for. “I don’t think I’m the person I was meant to be,” she tries to explain to her teenage son once she has moved out of the family home and into her own apartment. A social encounter with an old schoolmate turned local TV news host makes Maddie aware of how unfulfilled she feels as a housewife and mother-and so she abruptly flees her marriage. The times they are a-changin’, and 36-year-old Madeline Schwartz wants to change with them. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Lippman writes that her 66-year-old sister has been living in the memory unit of an assisted living facility where she is being treated for Parkinson’s disease since the fall of 2021. Photo: Hedrich Blessing Collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Imagesīaltimore in the mid-1960s is the setting of “Lady in the Lake” (Morrow, 340 pages, $26.99), the latest novel from the ever impressive Laura Lippman. The Highfield House courtyard in Baltimore, 1965.
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