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

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

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.

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.
Serial murders > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction.
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 30 of 36 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 36 total copies.
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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
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
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 -
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Martin Library Adults HAL Mystery True Crime (Text) 33454005817556 Reading Room Checked Out 05/15/2024
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Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity FIC HAL AS 2021 (Text) 31001101834787 Adult Fiction Available -
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New Castle Public Library Fic Hall (Text)
Bookplate: Purchased with Funds Provided by the Friends of the Library.
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 -
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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 -
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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.

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