![]() An 11-year-old girl, last seen in a pet store near her home, disappears. Soon, Maddie has changed her look - shorter skirts and ironed hair - and embarked on a secret affair with a black police officer, Ferdie Platt.īut it's crime that leads her to a new career. Mixed on its way to being not so mixed," as white flight to the suburbs surrenders urban neighborhoods to black residents. ![]() Waiting for her divorce to become final, she rents a small apartment in a neighborhood that's "decidedly mixed. The story begins with her walking out on her prosperous husband, teenage son, handsome home and secure place in the city's Jewish community for - well, she's not sure what, but she wants a different life. The book's main character is 37-year-old Maddie Schwartz. ![]() It's a crime novel, but it's the crime novel as social history, tackling big issues along with intimate violence. Firmly set in Lippman's hometown of Baltimore in the mid-1960s, it's told from the points of view of multiple characters and weaves in the rapid cultural changes in America taking place in that era. Lady in the Lake takes the opposite tack. Lippman's 2018 novel, Sunburn, was a swift, compact noir story in the James Cain mode, with a small cast of characters and a weary timelessness to its setting. ![]()
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