The Girl Next Door: A Novel

A smart-mouthed Newark reporter's tribute piece to a hit-and-run victim stirs up trouble in this humorous and suspenseful mystery by an award-winning author.

Reading his own newspaper's obituaries, veteran reporter Carter Ross comes across that of a woman named Nancy Marino, who was the victim of a hit-and-run while she was on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads...