Lady in the Lake

Baltimore 1966. When Maddie Schwartz having recently left her husband of over 20 years helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl her assistance leads to a job at the city’s afternoon newspaper. 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 a city park lake. Cleo Sherwood was a young African-American woman. No one seems to know or care why she was killed except Maddie - and the dead woman herself. Maddie’s going to find the truth about Cleo’s life and death. Cleo’s ghost privy to Maddie’s poking and prying wants to be left alone.