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Bibliography: Patterson, James. (1976). The Thomas Berryman Number. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN: 978-0446600453 Plot Summary:  The story of the investigation of Nashville reporter Ochs Jones into the murder of Jimmie Lee Horn, one of Nashville’s first black mayors. Jones meets with friends and family of an assassin named Thomas Berryman and discovers everything people thought they knew about [...]

Bibliography:  Deuker, Carl. (2010).  Payback Time.  New York: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.  ISBN: 978-0547279817 Plot Summary:  Aspiring journalist and high school senior Mitch True almost quits the school paper when Alyssa is chosen as editor over him and she assigns him to the sports beat.  But sports photographer Kim is beautiful and bright and [...]

Bibliography: Flynn, Gillian. (2006). Sharp Objects. New York: Crown Publishing Group.  ISBN: 978-0307341549 Plot Summary: With every fiber of her being protesting, newspaper reporter Camille Preaker returns home to Wind Gap, Missouri to get the scoop for her third rate newspaper on the kidnapping and murder of two little girls.  Not exactly the return of [...]

Bibliography:   Kramer, Julie. (2008).  Stalking Susan. New York: Doubleday. ISBN: 978-0385524766 Plot Summary: Riley Spartz, television news reporter  in Minneapolis, just knows she has  a ratings winner when a former homicide detective hands her two cold case files–two women named Susan murdered on the same day but different years.  Riley knows they are connected and [...]