The Reporter

Some people deserve enemies. Few deserve this ending.

Les Hilton called himself a reporter. Detective Maria Varela knew better. He was a hired blade, digging up dirt for Las Vegas’s rich and powerful and publishing just enough truth to ruin lives without crossing the line into libel—including Maria’s.

Then someone tied him to a chair and beat him to death.

Assigned to the case, Maria quickly learns that beneath Les’s reputation was a real investigation—one dangerous enough to get him killed. At the center of it is Ariella Matos, a missing woman no one wants found. Not the FBI, who have her father in witness protection. Not the political campaign she worked for. And definitely not the people with the most to lose.

What begins as the murder of a man who made plenty of enemies becomes something far more dangerous. To solve the case, Maria will have to find Ariella—and doing that could put everyone she loves in the crosshairs.

Dark, tense, and deeply personal, The Reporter launches a two-part Maria Varela mystery that pulls back the curtain on power, politics, and the price of telling the truth.