As the Wicked Watch
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- 20,99 €
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- 20,99 €
Publisher Description
The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago.
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 been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story—and giving a voice to the voiceless.
From her time in Texas, she’s covered the vilest of human behaviors but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. Jordan is that rare breed of a 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 women, 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, despite all efforts. A 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration and anger that her job often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her work 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Racial disparity and social justice are front and centre in this electrifying debut novel from Emmy-winning talk-show host Tamron Hall. Chicago journalist Jordan Manning is consumed with the emotional upheaval of her latest investigation: the horrifyingly violent death of a young Black girl named Masey, which has left an entire community in turmoil. Jordan is dogged about getting to the bottom of the story, but when the police fail to so much as follow up on potential leads, her mission goes from a search for the truth to a fight for justice. This heart-pounding listen had us just as engrossed in the racial injustices of Masey’s Chicago neighbourhood as we were in the hunt for a potential serial killer. Veteran narrator Susan Dalian modulates her voice to fit the vibe of every setting from the newsroom to the city streets. Tamron pulls from her own experience in crime reporting for this riveting tale about the turmoil behind the headlines.