Ten books coming to TV and film in 2024

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At Electric Lit Guthrie tagged ten top upcoming literary adaptations, including:

Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippmann

When a Black woman’s body is found in a lake in 1960s Baltimore, she barely makes headlines. This motivates Maddie, a housewife-turned-newspaper reporter, to dig into the woman’s life and uncover what happened to her. A mini series based on the mystery is coming to Apple TV with Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram leading the project.

Read about another entry on the list.

Lady in the Lake is among Alice Blanchard's five top mysteries set in still waters, Brittany Bunzey's ten books that take you inside their characters’ heads, Kimberly Belle's six novels that show lakes are a perfect setting for a murder mystery, and CrimeReads' ten best crime novels of 2019.

The Page 69 Test: Lady in the Lake.

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