The detectives, who seemed to find everything about her mildly hilarious, had shrugged, told her that motives were for Perry Mason.Īnother blue-eyed brunette would indicate that she was just a type, whereas a wispy blonde would suggest that he would never quite get over her, that she would be with him forever, sort of like chickenpox. It was like watching Alice Faye run away with King Kong. Within a year, she was engaged to Milton Schwartz, big and hairy and older, twenty-two to her eighteen, his first year of law school already behind him. It was like that first great work of art that transfixes you, that novel that stays with you the rest of your life, even if you go on to read much better ones.
Her inability to look beyond her own needs will lead to tragedy and turmoil for all sorts of people-including the man who shares her bed, a black police officer who cares for Maddie more than she knows. But for all 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 that 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, a lonely man in a movie theater. Cleo’s ghost, privy to Maddie’s poking and prying, wants to be left alone. Maddie’s going to find the truth about Cleo’s life and death. No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie-and the dead woman herself.
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. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake.Ĭleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman who liked to have a good time. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world.
This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know-everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman.
Publisher: William Morrow (July 23, 2019) Amazon US / UK / CA / AU B&N/ HarperCollins
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