Great Mystery Thriller. Story kept me interested. I enjoyed the book. ( )

ok — quick mystery — TV news business

Secrets can really kill your career.

Beautiful New York TV anchorwoman Eliza Blake has a past to hide. Her popular co-anchor has a scandal he'd die to keep secret. The next President's pretty wife wants desperately to avoid indecent exposure. A parish priest knows a terrible truth. And a killer has a secret agenda that reaches from New York City's streets to the White House-- it includes the time and place where Eliza Blake will have to die...

Perfect diversion for the time following an eye doctor visit, where I got my eyes dilated and couldn't spend the rest of the day doing the things I like to do, including reading. An ear-read was a good substitute for page turning, though.

Story was a bit formulaic, and a bit dated, but decent enough. The Clark women (Mary Higgins, Carol Higgins, Mary Jane) all tend to run together in my mind these days. I usually pick the least likely/most benign/trusted early on and pin the butler label on them. More often than not, I'm right. ( )

Suicide, murder, scandals and blackmail make for an intriguing whodunit. I had my suspicions as to who the suspect might have been, but I was thrown a curve ball. I just found it a little 'boring' being that the setting centered around life in a newsroom and the lives of its characters -- but that's just a personal (non)-preference. For that, this read gets a 3½ stars. ( )

Eliza Blake ist die Aufsteigerin des Jahres. Zusammen mit dem Starjournalisten Bill Kendall moderiert sie die erfolgreiche Nachrichtenshow ihres Senders. Aber das Glück bleibt nicht ungetrübt. Böse Gerüchte werden über sie in die Welt gesetzt. Angeblich ist Eliza kokainsüchtig und hat als alleinstehende Mutter einen unsteten Lebenswandel. Dann wird Bill Kendall tot aufgefunden. Der Befund ist sensationell: Der attraktive Nachrichtenmann soll Selbstmord begangen haben. Auch Eliza gerät mehr und mehr unter Druck. Eine gefährliche Intrige entspinnt sich um den Sender, deren Urhebern jedes Mittel recht ist. Sie beherrschen alle Spiele der Macht: von Erpressung bis zum Mord.