As the wicked watch / Tamron Hall with T. Shawn Taylor.
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 Black girls; 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 Black children rarely receive. Jordan is convinced that there's a serial killer on the loose and he's hiding in plain sight.
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]
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Subject: | African American television journalists > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. Serial murders > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. |
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- 30 of 36 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 1 current hold with 36 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | MYS HALL (Text) | 50686016107034 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/06/2024 |
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library | M HAL (Text) | 37268003123429 | AHMFL Mystery | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | F HAL (Text) | 33240005128361 | Adult New Arrivals | Recently Returned | - |
Annie Halenbake Ross Library | F Hal (Text)
Memorial:
In remembrance of Eleanor Kodish by Michael Bowes
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00151006 | ADULT Fiction | Available | - |
Ashland Public Library | MYS HAL (Text) | 3039900035948A | Mystery | Available | - |
Degenstein Community Library | FIC HALL (Text) | 35031301183600 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
DuBois Public Library | FIC HALL (Text)
Memorial:
In Memory of Elaine Nelson
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61000100069620 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | FIC HALL, TAMRON (Text) | 36446002051996 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/17/2024 |
Gettysburg Library | MYS FIC HALL TAMRON (Text) | 35740635780950 | Mystery Fiction | Available | - |
Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library | Adults HAL Fiction (Text) | 34007002447600 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Highland Community Library | F HAL (Text) | 35610000981378 | HGHM Fiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | F HAL (Text) | 30298100591209 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Mystery Hall (Text) | 39427103613527 | Fiction Room: Adult Mystery | Checked Out | 05/18/2024 |
Juniata County Library | F HAL (Text) | 39640100623741 | JUNM Fiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | FIC HAL (Text) | 33400001529505 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults HAL Mystery True Crime (Text) | 33454005817556 | Reading Room | Checked Out | 05/15/2024 |
Mason-Dixon Public Library | Adults HAL Mystery (Text) | 34262000766960 | Main Room | Available | - |
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | FIC HAL AS 2021 (Text) | 31001101834787 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Meyersdale Public Library | FIC HALL (Text) | 30512005389091 | MEYM Fiction | Available | - |
Milton Public Library | A HAL (Text) | 33226000971087 | MLTM Adult Fiction | Available | - |
New Castle Public Library | Fic Hall (Text)
Bookplate:
Purchased with Funds Provided by the Friends of the Library.
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31902005442421 | NWCM Fiction | Available | - |
North Pocono Public Library | MYS HALL (Text) | 50691010933492 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Parkland Community Library | F HAL (Text) | 34422007231083 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Pottsville Free Public Library | FIC M (Text) | 30003009070804 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Saxton Community Library | F HAL (Text) | 3SAXT000333735 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Tamaqua Public Library | S HAL jm 1 (Text) | 30TPL001901675 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Taylor Community Library | MYS HALL (Text) | 50692010948704 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Tunkhannock Public Library | F HAL (Text) | 31650000568985 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Wyomissing Public Library | X HAL (Text) | 35012001553878 | Mystery | Available | - |
Allentown Public Library | HALL, TAMRON (Text) | 34455006837377 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009512410 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/06/2024 |
Clymer Library | FIC HAL BOOK 1 JORDAN MANNING (Text) | 32596000504075 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/01/2024 |
Easton Main Library | HALL (Text) | 31901004553022 | Mystery & Suspense | Available | - |
Easton Palmer Branch | HALL (Text) | 31901004553089 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Pocono Mountain Public Library | F Hal (Text) | 35540000061146 | PMPL 2nd Floor Fiction | Available | - |
Wayne County Public Library | MYS HAL (Text) | 31843001283304 | Mystery | Available | - |
Summary:
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 Black girls; 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 Black children rarely receive. Jordan is convinced that there's a serial killer on the loose and he's hiding in plain sight.