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But despite her ambition and drive, Maddie often fails to see the people right in front of her. 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 hardened female reporter, and a lonely man in a movie theater. While Maddie is determined to learn the truth about Cleo's life and death, Cleo's ghost, privy to Maddie's poking and prying, wants only to be left alone.

No one knows or cares why she was killed - except Maddie and the dead woman herself. Working at the newspaper provides Maddie the opportunity to make her name and she believes she has found the story that will propel her into a successful career: a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake.Ĭleo Sherwood was a young black woman who liked to have a good time.

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. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Now she's a former housewife and mother turned aspiring reporter pursuing the killer of a forgotten young woman. But she has bolted from her stale, predictable marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. A year ago, she was a happy, privileged and pampered housewife.

In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know - everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Lady in the lake, set in 1960s Baltimore, is a stylish thriller combining modern psychological and sociological insights with elements of classic noir.