It has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose outside their building. Emily Andersen is the editor, and she'll protect her staff: No matter what. No matter who.
Book 7 in the Newsroom PDX suspense series.
Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Of course, there is. It's Portland.
A former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
L.J. Breedlove writes about religion and politics. About race and gender. She believes in the journalism axiom: Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. To which the labor organizer Mother Jones was supposed to have added: And in general raise hell.
That works.