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LocationOakland
Call NoF HAL #1 JORDAN MANNING
TitleAs the Wicked Watch
AuthorHall, Tamron
Barcode527120
CollectionLarge Print Fiction
SummaryWhen 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.
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Oakland 527120F HAL #1 JORDAN MANNINGLarge Print Fiction Available

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780063117747 29.99
International Standard Book Number 0063117746 29.99
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813
Personal Name Hall, Tamron
Title Statement As the Wicked Watch
Edition Statement Large print edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice HarperCollins 2021
Physical Description 512 p. (lg print) Softcover 23 cm.
Series Statement Jordan Manning 1
Summary, Etc. 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.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American television journalists. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women. Serial Murderers.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder investigation Chicago, IL
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Detective & mystery. Novel.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Large type book
Index Term-Genre/Form Large type books.