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. Cleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman who liked to have a good time. 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. 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. What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no-one wants her to tell.In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know–everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. When she hears about an unidentified body that's been pulled out of the fountain in Druid Hill Park, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will finally get her name in print. Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the Baltimore Sun - wants one thing: a byline.
It isn't hard to understand why: it's 1964 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. SOON TO BE A MAJOR APPLE TV SERIES STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND LUPITA NYONG'OĬleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. 'Lippman is a natural storyteller at the height of her powers.' Lee Childįrom the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of Sunburn
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