I wasn’t surprised to learn, halfway through Lady in the Lake, that it was being developed into a television series. Like Little Fires Everywhere, The Undoing, and most recently Mare of Easttown, Lady in the Lake weds mystery-solving with female midlife crises (“midlife crisis” defined generously–here the protagonist is under forty and still attractive, as readers are repeatedly reminded). The novel revolves around two women in 1960s Baltimore: Madeline Schwartz, a housewife who leaves her family to rediscover herself, and Cleo Sherwood, the murdered “lady in the lake.” Told she […]