[book_talk] The Girl Next Door, Parks
- From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:54:50 -0800
The Girl Next Door
By Brad Parks.
The book is on BARD.
This is the third book in the Carter Ross Series.
Carter Ross is a reporter for a Newark paper. One morning he reads the
obituary of a fellow employee, a 42 year old woman who delivered papers.
While he did not know her personally, he feels that the passing of a fellow
employee deserves more than an obit notice.
He attends the funeral, introduces himself to family members and others, and
starts asking questions. He learns that the woman was killed by a hit and
run driver who hasn't been caught yet and that she was a union activist, who
represented the paper carriers. He tries to get a quote from the paper's
publisher who is also attending the funeral, but is brusquely brushed off.
Ross is assigned a new intern to help him. This new intern, as with the two
in the prior two books, is a terrific character. He's huge, a former
football player, he's bookish, and one who proses on in person and when in
front of a keyboard to such an extent that others don't want to work with
him. He has been spending his time reading up to now. Ross puts him to work.
The way they work together is interesting and sometimes quite funny.
While I think the author could have been a bit more subtle, I pegged the bad
guy early on, I still enjoyed the book very much, and I'm looking forward to
the fourth book in the series.
Good reading,
Rosemarie
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