Maddie is persistent and won’t take no for an answer or stop when she finds doors slammed in her face. Maddie also takes a lover who, as a police officer, is able to feed her information from time to time. The problem is that no-one, including the police and the woman’s own family, seem to want this story to be told. Maddie believes that there is a story that she can write that of the murder of a young black woman whose body has been found in a lake. She leaves her husband, teenage son and comfortable lifestyle, to set up home by herself and attempt to persuade a local newspaper to give her a by line even though she has no previous experience in journalism and, at the age of 37, is considered to be too old to be just starting out on this particular career. Maddie, the principle character, has grown weary of her role as a stay -at- home wife and mother and wants a career in journalism. It was also a time of huge racial discrimination, when attacks on Negro women attracted little attention from the police, newspapers or the public. Laura Lippman’s latest novel is set in 1960s USA, in times when many women were expected to stay at home and look after house, husband and children.
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