Lady in the Lake by Laura LippmanRead about another title on the list.
To build out her suspense-filled story of two murders in Baltimore in the 1960s, Laura Lippman took inspiration from the real-life unrelated deaths of a young Jewish girl and a Black woman in her 30s during that time in the city. Her resulting book has been hailed for how it tackles both the racism and the misogyny of the time, as its protagonist, a bored housewife and aspiring journalist, begins investigating the pair of mysterious murders.
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.
--Marshal Zeringue
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