Investigative reporter Hallie Ahern left Boston in disgrace
after compromising a story by sleeping with the accused.
Now she's working as a lowly reporter in a little bureau
office of The Providence Morning Chronicle in Rhode Island,
trying to put her lonely, miserable life back together.
It's hard though, when all the reporting she does is
writing about neighborhood happenings. Having licked her
drug demons, the only addiction Hallie can now afford is
calling in to the late-night radio talk show, using a fake
name and voicing her opinions on whatever subject is being
discussed. Lately, those heated discussions have been about
legalizing casino gambling in the area.
One night, Hallie is in her local market buying groceries
and a Lotto ticket, when she witnesses the gruesome murder
of the store owner. She knows the police are wrong when
they pursue it as a robbery gone bad. That's not what she
saw, so her investigative nature takes over, and she
becomes involved even further in trying to learn the truth.
Then she receives valuable information about the deceased
from a confidential source, and there's no turning back.
Not even when she receives death threats, or when sexy Matt
Cavanaugh from the attorney general's office pleads with
Hallie to stop her meddling in the case. He knows, as does
she now, that it could mean her life.
This book starts off slowly, then becomes fast-paced as
Hallie uncovers more clues to what really happened and why
it's so important that she not discover the truth. I really
enjoyed this intense mystery.
When Hallie Ahern, a struggling journalist addicted to late
night talk radio, stops into her neighborhood market buy
milk, she becomes the only witness to murder. It looks like
an armed robbery gone awry, but Hallie gets a tip that it’s
a bigger story. As she investigates the dangerous world of
gambling and corruption in Providence, Rhode Island, she’ll
learn that there’s no one she can trust and the race to the
front page could cost her her life.
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