![]() What appears first as a domestic tale, soon segues into a whodunit, which in turn opens up into a portrait of an entire city from the top on down. Lippman, who says she wrote another period piece after the surreal political climate became too frantic for her to consider setting the book in contemporary America, goes for more. By the end of the novel she's fashioned a career, a life and a peace of sorts, but this isn't exactly a tale of female empowerment. Soon she's involved with the black policeman who responds to her cries for help. ![]() After a failed attempt to sell her engagement ring she resorts to faking a burglary. Out of her staid marriage Schwartz is giddy with the freedom, but suddenly without means. Not that she goes far, simply moving into a small apartment in a less desirable part of town. ![]() ![]() Like the protagonist in Lippman's last book - the excellent Sunburn - Maddie Schwartz, a 37 Jewish year-old housewife, leaves her husband and child and sets out looking for excitement, this time in a deftly depicted mid-60s Baltimore. Laura Lippman's latest looks at racism and gender politics in a marvellous new thriller set in 1960s Baltimore. ![]()
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