As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that
great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and
loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts
being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding
for her uncle. It's a quirky city where baseball reigns,
but lately homicide seems to be the second most popular
local sport. Business tycoon "Wink" Wynkowski is trying to
change all that by bringing pro basketball back to town,
and everybody's rooting fro him—until a devastating,
muckraking expose of his lurid past appears on the front
page of the Baltimore Beacon-Light. It's a surprise even
to the Blight's editors, who thought they'd killed the
piece. Instead, the piece killed Wink—who's found in his
garage with the car running.
Now the Blight wants to nail the unknown computer hacker
who planted the lethal story, and the assignment is right
up the alley of a former newshound like Tess. But it
doesn't take long for her to discover deeper, darker
secrets, and to realize that this situation is really more
about whacking than hacking. It's just murder in Baltimore
these days—and Tess Monaghan herself might be next on the
list.
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