SAY NO MORE

By Hank Phillippi Ryan

This is the latest installment in the adventures of Boston’s greatest investigative couple, TV reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan, who readers have already fallen in love with.

We begin with what appears to be a hit-and-run highway accident witnessed by both Jane and her new producer, Fiola. Jane knows that she may be called as a witness, which doesn’t please her or her bosses at the station. But she stops thinking about the accident as she has a whopping story she must report on at the moment. She must gather interviews for a documentary about sexual assaults on college campuses. One of the victims seems prepared to tell all, but has still not given Jane and Fiola her real name.

In the meantime, Jake, along with other members of Boston’s finest, has been sent to a housing development referred to as The Reserve. The dwellers call themselves an ‘off-the-official-map’ closed society of blue-blooded affluence. It is here that Jake must look into the suspicious drowning of a Hollywood screenwriter, a visiting professor at a nearby college who just happens to be the same one Jane’s would-be interviewee wants to discuss. It seems a resident told the police about the screenwriter’s fall into the swimming pool, which gives him a good reason for staying anonymous if he wants to stay alive within The Reserve.

This story is full of all sorts of odd folks; from egotistical college administrators to witnesses who most definitely do not want to talk to the cops. And when another mysterious death occurs at The Reserve, more and more obstacles are thrown in the way of Jane and Jake as they try to uncover a startling truth.

It is never a surprise that this author provides a thrilling tale, but with this one she absolutely knocked the proverbial ball out of the park.