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by Ardella Garland; Yolanda Joe

• ISBN13: 9780743414807
• ISBN10: 0743414802
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-01-29
• Publisher: Pocket

Summary

A savvy, wisecracking reporter-sleuth makes big news in this stunning new mystery by Ardella Garland -- the nom de plume for acclaimed bestselling novelist Yolanda Joe.

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Inner-city Chicago: After identifying a drive-by shooter's car on live TV, a young girl named Little Butter disappears. Haunted by her responsibility for the child's fate and heartbroken at seeing her former South Side neighborhood devastated by crime, reporter Georgia Barnett desperately searches for the girl. Butting heads with tough detective Doug Eckart at every turn, Georgia enters dangerous territory where street violence escalates and informers turn up dead. Suddenly, this simple missing-persons case turns into a citywide effort to nab a notorious gang, and Georgia, Doug, and the Channel Eight News crew find themselves struggling to do what's right in a city overcome by racism, fear, and hostility.

Author Biography

Ardella Garland is the pen name of Yolanda Joe, author of the Blackboard bestselling novels Falling Leaves of Ivy, He Say, She Say, Bebe's By Golly Wow, and This Just In. Joe is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University School of Journalism and worked as a newswriter at CBS in Chicago for twelve years. Raised by her grandparents, she grew up and still lives in Chicago. The name Ardella Garland is a combination of her grandparents' names and was created to honor them.

Visit Yolanda Joe at www.yolandajoe.com.