Rhode Island reporter Hallie Ahern needs her next story to land on the front page if she wants to keep her job. The new execs at the Morning Chronicle are cutting back the staff, and Hallie, the newest member of the investigative team, could be one of the first to go. A one-car accident, even one that resulted in the death of a young mother of three, normally wouldn't be front-page material. But because Hallie witnessed it while coming home late on a rainy spring night, she can't get it out of her mind. With a little luck and a lot of digging, Hallie's good instincts put her on the trail of a much bigger story. And to get it, she'll to have to take some risks, but this time the stakes couldn't be any higher or more deadly. A breakneck ride through Providence's crime world and a powerful look at Hallie's daily struggle with gambling addiction, Yesterday's Fatal will have readers holding on tight.

Yesterday's Fatal

Literature & Fiction

Brogan, Jan

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

Hallie Ahern, a Providence, Rhode Island, reporter and recovering gambling addict, is trawling online chat rooms in search of a story for her newspaper’s Web site when an anonymous source sends her a short video clip, a teaser. Featuring two girls striking provocative poses, the clip promises more to come. As Hallie follows up on the lead, staking out tech shops and high school hangouts in search of the girls in the clip, she discovers that men are buying the girls webcams and lavishing them with gifts to make sure they use them. But those gifts are only a taste of the perils to come. The paper’s new owners love the idea of an exposé that warns parents of the dangers of the Internet, but when girls start dying, and when Hallie’s boyfriend—a prosecutor with the Attorney General’s office—ends up on another side of the story altogether, the situation goes from dark to lethal. As Hallie is caught between her responsibilities as a reporter and as a concerned citizen, her investigation leads her deep into a far-reaching conspiracy in Teaser, Jan Brogan’s latest gripping mystery.

Teaser (Hallie Ahern Mysteries, 3)

United States

- Jan Brogan's first novel, "Final Copy (Larcom Press, 2001), won "The Drood Review of Mystery's Editor's Choice Award and was named one of the best eight mysteries published in 2001.- Like the novels of Edgar Award-winning author Laura Lippman, this book is fast-paced and impossible to put down. It is certain to appeal to fans of Lippman, as well as fans of Linda Barnes's Carlotta Carlyle mysteries.- Jan Brogan, an award-winning journalist, has worked in newspapers for 20 years. She is a former writer at "The Providence Journal Bulletin and currently works as a correspondent for "The Boston Globe. Well-connected in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island, she plans to promote her book extensively in both states.

A Confidential Source

Grand Central Publishing

From the award-winning author of "Final Copy" comes a new, fast-paced mysterythat will be impossible to put down.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

Named one of the eight best mysteries published in 2001 by The Drood Review of Mystery (Editors' Choice)

Final Copy

Larcom Pr

The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice

Shortlisted for the 2021 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction and the 2022 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Nonfiction Work\nAt the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.\nStarting with this brutal murder, The Combat Zone tells the story of the Puopolo family's struggle with both a devastating loss and a criminal justice system that produced two trials with opposing verdicts, all within the context of a racially divided Boston. Brogan traces the contentious relationship between Boston’s segregated neighborhoods during the busing crisis; shines a light on a court system that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based purely on their racial or ethnic identity; and lays bare the deep-seated corruption within the police department and throughout the Combat Zone. What emerges is a fascinating snapshot of the city at a transitional moment in its recent past.

History

Americas

Bright Leaf

<div>At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district. Starting with this brutal murder, The Combat Zone tells the story of the Puopolo family's struggle with both a devastating loss and a criminal justice system that produced two trials with opposing verdicts, all within the context of a racially divided Boston. Brogan traces the contentious relationship between Boston's segregated neighborhoods during the busing crisis; shines a light on a court system that allowed lawyers to strike potential jurors based purely on their racial or ethnic identity; and lays bare the deep-seated corruption within the police department and throughout the Combat Zone.&nbsp;What emerges is a fascinating snapshot of the city at a transitional moment in its recent past.</div>

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Yesterday's Fatal

Teaser (Hallie Ahern Mysteries, 3)

A Confidential Source

A Confidential Source

Final Copy

The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice

The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston's Struggle for Justice