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Also by Brad Parks:

The Flack, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
The Boundaries We Cross, November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Unthinkable, August 2021
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Interference, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Last Act, March 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Say Nothing, December 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Last Act, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Closer Than You Know, February 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Player, March 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Good Cop, March 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Girl Next Door, January 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Girl Next Door, March 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
By: Brad Parks

Carter Ross Series #3
Minotaur Books
March 2012
On Sale: March 13, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 031266768X
EAN: 9780312667689
Kindle: B00633W678
Hardcover / e-Book
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Paperback (January 2013)

Mystery

Reading his own newspaper’s obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather tributes and anecdotes. It’s the last place Ross expects to find controversy—which is exactly what happens when one of Nancy’s sisters convinces him that the accident might not have been accidental at all.

It turns out that the kind and generous Nancy may have made a few enemies, starting with her boss at the diner where she was a part-time waitress, and even including the publisher of the Eagle-Examiner. Carter’s investigation of this seemingly simple story soon has him in big trouble with his full-time editor and sometime girlfriend, Tina Thompson, not to mention the rest of his bosses at the paper, but he can’t let it go—the story is just too good, and it keeps getting better. But will his nose for trouble finally take him too far?

Brad Parks’s smart-mouthed, quick-witted reporter returns in The Girl Next Door—another action-packed entry in his award-winning series, written with an unforgettable mix of humor and suspense.