Jane Ryland was a rising star in television news until she refused to reveal a source and lost everything. Now a disgraced newspaper reporter, Jane isn’t content to work on her assigned puff pieces, and finds herself tracking down a candidate’s secret mistress just days before a pivotal Senate election.Detective Jake Brogan is investigating a possible serial killer. Twice, bodies of unidentified … of unidentified women have been found by a bridge, and Jake is plagued by a media swarm beginning to buzz about a “bridge killer” hunting the young women of Boston.
As the body count rises and election looms closer, it becomes clear to Jane and Jake that their cases are connected and that they may be facing a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to silence a scandal.
Dirty politics, dirty tricks, and a barrage of final twists, The Other Woman is the first in an explosive new series by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Seduction, betrayal, and murder it’ll take a lot more than votes to win this election.
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Jane Ryland is cool, plucky, and an ace investigative reporter. And the book—with its brisk, tightly woven plot, and the smart, complicated woman at its center—is crackerjack.
Author Hank Phillippi Ryan is a Renaissance Woman of the 21st Century. In addition to being an award-winning fiction writer, she is a multiple Emmy winner for her three decades of work as a television journalist, and she has won numerous prestigious Edward R. Murrow awards for her hard-hitting revelations as an investigative reporter. Hank is also a teacher, a popular and accomplished public speaker, and the owner and operator of a sharp wit and keenly observant mind. She is also generous to a fault in her ceaseless encouragement of fellow authors and others in the scope of her vision. I say all of this in preface to my review of her latest release, “The Other Woman”, because everything that Hank takes in comes back out in her work. Her readers are the lucky recipients of all of the thought processes, observances, and life experiences of this remarkable woman. Hank once again rocks the suspense/thriller genre with “The Other Woman”, a timely thriller that turns over rocks and lets loose all sorts of slimy, slithery political creepers and crawlers. Jane Ryland was building a solid career in television journalism until protecting her source left her vulnerable to a high-powered media barrage, thus ending her favored status. With a recommendation from her almost “more than a friend”, police detective Jake Brogan, she is hired as an investigative reporter for one of the very Boston newspapers which had featured her prominently in their headlines. As Jane begins working on finding the secret mistress of a Senatorial candidate shortly before an upcoming election, Jake is investigating a serial murderer dubbed “the bridge killer” because each of the bodies was left by a bridge. As common elements emerge, Jane and Jake realize they are working on the same story, and then things really get complicated, not to mention deadly. Be forewarned: Once you start reading “The Other Woman”, you won’t want to put it down, and you’ll have to read it right through to the end. Next, you’ll have to check out the rest of Hank Phillippi Ryan’s book list, and I predict your reading table will soon be stacked with terrific suspense thrillers from this talented author. Highly recommended.
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Jane Ryland is a rich, complex character – smart, strong, flawed… a woman to root for and care about. The perfect beginning to this page-turning series.
The Jane Ryland series is probably my favorite of Ryan’s! Jane is so well written that she grabs you from the first few sentences and you want her to win–sometimes in spite of herself. The crimes are always well constructed when it’s Ryan writing them and the story is designed to pull you along, constantly making you think you are one step ahead… but you probably aren’t.
This series includes The Wrong Girl, Truth Be Told and more. All recommended by me!
This is the first in a series – the Jane Ryland series. The author has been an investigative news reporter for Boston TV for a number of years. She has written several books and won many more awards for these books.
Jane is a Boston television reporter but when she refuses to reveal a source in a case, she lost her job at the TV station. Now, she’s working as a newspaper reporter. She receives a phone call from a Senate candidate’s wife asking her to find out who her husband is having an affair with. At the same time, Detective Jake Brogan is investigating a series of bodies that are found near bridges in the city. He suspects a serial killer, but is he right? During the course of their investigations, both Jane and Jake realize that their cases might be connected.
Disgraced Boston TV Reporter Jane Ryland is trying to rebuild your life with a job on a newspaper. Her first assignment is to get an interview with a Senate candidate’s wife. But Jane begins to suspect there is more going on than meets the eye – like the Senator is having an affair. Meanwhile, several dead bodies are showing up. Is there a serial killer on the loose? There are so many plot threads and characters that it took forever for me to get into the book. Once I did, it was a fun ride and I couldn’t put down. Worth the effort, but it took about 100 pages to really start to click.