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Written by RG Belsky \u2013 This is former newsman Dick Belsky\u2019s second crime story featuring Pulitzer-Prize winning print journalist Clare Carlson, now significantly reduced in career status by working as the news director for Channel 10 television. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clare has a wittily cynical, self-deprecating take on her job and the events and people around her, and the novel begins with her musing on why some deaths\u2014those of blonde white females\u2014matter more than others, at least in the news business. Most of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clare runs a lively morning news meeting, in which the\nreporters and staff hammer out which stories to feature that day, absent any\neven bigger story breaking. On this particular day, Clare\u2019s assignment editor\nMaggie challenges the team to look a little deeper and discover what was\nimportant about the life and death of a person they wouldn\u2019t ordinarily spend\ntime on, a fifty-four-year-old homeless woman stabbed to death in an ATM\nvestibule. Because Clare rises to the challenge, they discover, over time, just\nhow significant the story of Dora Gayle turns out to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first glimmer there may be more to the homeless woman\u2019s story\nthan they anticipated comes when Grace Mancuso, a woman Gayle\u2019s polar\nopposite\u2014young, beautiful, wealthy, a stockbroker\u2014is brutally murdered. Beside\nher body is a list of five names, five people who appear to have nothing in\ncommon, who in fact believe they have never even met. The last name on the list\nis Dora Gayle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Clare\u2019s investigative journalism, Belsky expertly\nrolls out the stories of all these people, living and dead, and their possible\nintersections. Except for Gayle, of course, are they suspects in either murder?\nPotential victims? In the process, Belsky lays down enough red herrings to feed\nlower Manhattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belsky, who lives and worked in Manhattan for years, knows\nhis setting well, not just its geography, but its culture down to the\nneighborhood level. You may look up from his pages and be surprised to find\nyourself somewhere other than Washington Square or the East Village, so\nthoroughly is this story imbued with the spirit of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t a spoiler to say that, in the end, the death of Dora Gayle, a death that ordinarily would have been passed over without journalistic notice, started the novel\u2019s engine, bearing out Clare\u2019s advice to her news team that \u201cthere\u2019s a story to every murder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image by Michal Kry\u0144ski from Pixabay<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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