The title of the novel refers to one of these unsolved crimes, a woman who has been missing for about eight months. As her confidence grows, she begins to explore other unsolved crimes, but soon becomes out of her depth, always seeking the right to get her own byline in the newspaper. This correspondence gives her an entry to the life she craves in the newsroom. She finds the body and begins a correspondence with the suspected killer. When a child is murdered in the vicinity, Maddie sees her chance and unofficially joins in the search for the body. She wants to get a job with the newspaper office near to her new address. Initially hard up, she pretends she has been burgled, only to end up in a relationship with the policeman who comes to investigate. So she leaves and sets herself up in an apartment in downtown Baltimore. Good at it as she is, Maddie Swartz has had enough of her life as a housewife, entertaining her husband’s friends to dinner, and always being prepared to adapt to everyone else’s needs.
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