The Someday File - Couverture souple

Heller, Jean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1505880335 ISBN 13 : 9781505880335

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

What happens when the profession you ve known all your adult life threatens to kill you, yet suffocating guilt and insatiable curiosity won t let you walk away?That s pretty much what happens to Deuce Mora, a columnist for the Chicago Journal, a big-city newspaper struggling to stay solvent in a world that seems to have outgrown newspapers and left them in ruin.What Deuce digs out of her ideas file is something that should be, at best, a human-interest story. The tale of an aging, low-level Chicago mobster living on beer, bourbon, and regret for the one mistake in his life that cost him everything. Deuce finds him in a Cicero bar late one afternoon, already drunk and resolute in his determination not to talk to her.Afraid for his safety in the boozy world he inhabits, Deuce gives him a ride home and thus seals his brutal fate. She is left with more guilt than she can shoulder, more curiosity than she can ignore, and in more danger than she can imagine.The mobster s final words to her shove her into a world of political and criminal intrigue and confront her with a horrific crime more than 50 years old that she will either solve or die in the trying.

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Biographie de l'auteur

My mother once confronted my husband and me, put her hands on her hips, and asked, “Can’t one of you hold onto a job?” She was joking – sort of. Both of us were journalists, and we kept getting better jobs, which required moving. A lot. Moving frequently is, I have discovered, a good way to avoid having to clean out the closets, the garage, and the cabinets under the kitchen sink. Through it all, I have been one thing above all else, a writer. I started my first novel when I was in the third grade, the story of people living at the center of the earth. I liked the concept, but I really didn’t have a good plot point, and when I discovered what it’s really like at the center of the earth, the project went up in flames, so to speak. My first complete novel, a thriller called “Maximum Impact,” was published by Forge, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, in 1993. My second, “Handyman,” came two years later. Both received great reviews from critics and readers. My new series features Deuce Mora, lead columnist for the Chicago Journal. Deuce normally writes about politics, but every once in a while her search for a good story brings her face to face with more trouble than she can handle. The first Deuce mystery, “The Someday File,” won wide reader and critical acclaim. The second, “The Hunting Ground,” is being hailed as even better. The series is set in Chicago, a city I have loved since I was in college and which I have called home for years. I set the stories here because Chicago is such a great character in its own right. The stories I can build on these bones – quite literally in the case of “The Hunting Ground” – have infinite possibilities. Enjoy! Jean’s news career included serving as an investigative and projects reporter and editor for The Associated Press in New York City and Washington, D.C., The Cox Newspapers and New York Newsday in Washington, D.C. and the St. Petersburg Times in Washington, D.C. and Florida. Jean has won multiple awards, including the Worth Bingham Prize, the Polk Award, and is an eight-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1505880335
• ISBN 13: 9781505880335
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 357
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible