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Wow. I did not like this.
"Lady in the Lake" follows Maddie Schwartz who walks out on her marriage looking for something more than being a wife and mother. Something more means talking her way into a job at a newspaper where she starts to report on the murder of a young girl and then on an young African American woman. Maddie relentlessly follows leads so she can be the one to report on the so-called Lady in the Lake, Cleo Sherwood.
There were about a dozen POVs that Lippman gives us though I guess you could say the main character is a woman named Maddie Schwartz. I just was not feeling her. She was selfish and not very engaging to follow around. The other characters are not very developed. The so called "Lady in the Lake" was a mess of a character too once things are revealed. I don't know this whole book read like a very bad mini-series that would have aired on ABC when I was a teenager.
This takes place in Baltimore in 1966 but you honestly would not know it except for every character talking about Baltimore. I definitely thought that Lippman strayed too far with this one.
The ending was definitely a who cares from me.
1 star, maybe 2. Have to think on the review a bit more.
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