As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall - 2021

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 f 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 thus far been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story -- and giving voice to the voiceless.

From her time reporting in Texas, she's sure she has covered the vilest of human behaviors, but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. You see, Jordan is that rare breed of 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, mots brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten.

All until Masey James -- the story that Jordan just can't shake, try as she might. A fifteen-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration that her job -- with its required distance -- often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her workload 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.

WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2021

THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.