The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that Lady in the Lake, the new whodunit premiering Friday on AppleTV+, should make people uncomfortable. In a Globe special, Radheyan Simonpillai writes that the limited series, backed by Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee (who died just before shooting began), deep dives into the complicated relationships between Jewish and black communities, framing that at times confrontational conversation within a mostly gripping procedural. An African-American woman's body is found in a lake. A Jewish woman becomes obsessed with how she got there. Turns out, they have locked eyes before, posed on opposite sides of a department store window in 1966 Baltimore. The series adapts Laura Lippman's novel. A former Baltimore Sun reporter, Ms. Lippman based her novel on two real cases. In 1969, the bodies of both 11-year-old Esther Lebowitz and 35-year-old Shirley Lee Parker were discovered. The Jewish child's murder was heavily reported and investigated; meanwhile the African-American woman's demise was largely ignored and remains unsolved. Through the fictional Maddie, Ms. Lippman explores the disparity between the two cases and the neighbourhoods the victims come from.