Lady in the Lake

<b>**SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN**</b><br><br><b>'A real triumph of storytelling and suspense.' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><b>'A very special kind of twisted genius.' SARAH HILARY</b><br><b>'Complex, hard-hitting and unflinching' <i>Irish Times</i></b><br><b>'Aching, thoughtful, and compulsively readable.' <i>Vanity Fair</i></b><br><b></b><br><b>A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER</b><br><br>Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. 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.<br><br>Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline. 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. What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell.<br><br><u><b>What readers are saying:</b></u><br><b>***** 'A twisty, thrilling, mesmerising ride. I couldn't put it down!'</b><br><b>***** 'It was a delight reading this book. I enjoyed the insight into each character. The mystery was always there, but with a different twist.'</b><br><b>***** 'It really grabbed me. . . more than a simple detective novel.'</b><br><b>***** 'The absolute best Lippman to date. . . This novel grabbed me in the first pages and didn't let go.'</b>