In late 60s Baltimore, a woman leaves her husband and becomes a newspaper reporter, finding herself in the middle of two murders--one a white child and the second the young black woman of the title-- navigating both the men's world of the newsroom and the attentions of two killers in Laura Lippman's The Lady in the Lake.
Lippman paints on a broad canvas, vividly recreating a time and place, with a vast cast of characters-- from reporters to cops to waitresses to the victims themselves, and even a famous Baltimore Orioles player of the era.
To me at least, this constantly shifting POV diffused the narrative a bit, and the story seems to more or less wrap up about three-quarters of the way through. But I enjoyed the setting and storytelling well enough to seek out more from Lippman.
I listened to a good audiobook read of this on loan from the Henry County-New Castle Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
Lippman paints on a broad canvas, vividly recreating a time and place, with a vast cast of characters-- from reporters to cops to waitresses to the victims themselves, and even a famous Baltimore Orioles player of the era.
To me at least, this constantly shifting POV diffused the narrative a bit, and the story seems to more or less wrap up about three-quarters of the way through. But I enjoyed the setting and storytelling well enough to seek out more from Lippman.
I listened to a good audiobook read of this on loan from the Henry County-New Castle Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
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