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As the wicked watch  Cover Image Book Book

As the wicked watch / Tamron Hall with T. Shawn Taylor.

Hall, Tamron, (author.). Taylor, T. Shawn, (author.).

Summary:

"When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scene in impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a master's degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts, Jordan has thus far been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story and giving voice to the voiceless. From her time reporting in Texas, she's sure she has covered the vilest of human behaviors, but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. You see, Jordan is that rare breed of journalist who can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a newsroom often noticing what others tend to miss. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of black females, many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten. All until Masey James the story that Jordan just can't shake, try as she might. A fifteen-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration that her job with its required distance often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her workload and her (fraying) personal life aside, Jordan does everything she can to give the story the coverage it desperately requires, and that a missing black child would so rarely get. There's a serial killer on the loose, Jordan believes, and he's hiding in plain sight."-- Publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063037038
  • ISBN: 0063037033
  • Physical Description: 388 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
Subject: African American television journalists > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Forensic sciences > Fiction.
Serial murders > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Available copies

  • 36 of 41 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

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  • 0 current holds with 41 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library FICTION HALL 2021 (Text) 0001002381919 Fiction Checked out 05/07/2024


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