#60 What I've been reading, watching and listening to this week.

A 1960s murder mystery plus two new true crime podcasts.

I’ve got quite the murder-y edition for you this week.

First up is Apple TV+’s new thriller mini-series Lady in the Lake, which is based on Laura Lippman’s novel of the same name.

It tells the story of two Baltimore women in the 1960s: affluent white Jewish housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) and Black, basically single mother Cleo (Moses Ingram), who’s working hard to lift herself and her children out of a life of struggle.

Their lives begin to converge when a young girl named Tessie goes missing during the Thanksgiving Day parade. After Maddie finds Tessie’s body in a lake, she leaves her husband and son, moves into an apartment in a Black neighbourhood and begins investigating the murder herself.

When Cleo’s body is found in the fountain of a local park, Maddie starts looking into her case too.

The first two episodes are mostly world-building, as we get to know these two women and civil-rights era Baltimore, where the combination of racial prejudice and sexual op…