A classic cold case reopened—along with Pandora’s boxWhen eleven-year-old Lucy Devlin disappeared on her way to school more than a decade ago, it became one of the most famous missing child cases in history. The story turned reporter Clare Carlson into a media superstar overnight. Clare broke exclusive after exclusive. She had unprecedented access to the Devlin family as she wrote about the … wrote about the heartbreaking search for their young daughter. She later won a Pulitzer Prize for her extraordinary coverage of the case.
Now Clare once again plunges back into this sensational story. With new evidence, new victims, and new suspects—too many suspects. Everyone from members of a motorcycle gang to a prominent politician running for a US Senate seat seem to have secrets they’re hiding about what really might have happened to Lucy Devlin. But Clare has her own secrets. And, in order to untangle the truth about Lucy Devlin, she must finally confront her own torturous past.
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“Is hope—even false hope— the worst thing in the world to give someone?”
An intriguing mystery that has been going on for fifteen years. A kidnapping, with no resolve, happened many years ago.
Now , as a a reporter who has won a pulitzer from this case originally, Clare is looking to reopen and investigate just what happened and bring some conclusion for Lucy’s mother.
The twists and turns of this novel are amazing and I was sure I knew who murdered this little girl, but I actually was so far off the mark that I couldn’t believe it!
I was given a copy of this book by the publisher and this is my honest review of this novel.
Really interesting twists and turns that you would NOT expect. Well written characters.
Many twists and turns on the way to a shocking ending.
This is a must read. I love mysteries that are unpredictable and this book meets the that category. Every time I thought I figured it out , it would have a twist. I would highly recommend this book. Love to read more from this author.
WOW….this really took me by surprise. Many red herrings in this story that I really enjoyed reading. You will enjoy this read.
Very interesting look into a cold case and the way police and media interact. Good characters and some surprising twists towards the end.
Dick Belsky delivers another fast-paced mystery in YESTERDAY’S NEWS, a book that features the author’s masterful storytelling skills and his penchant for snappy patter and a plot with more twists than a Tennessee moonshiner’s midnight run down a mountain road.
Flatlanders may well get whiplash, but the risk is worth taking to see where this wild ride winds up. Belsky’s a New Yorker and an ex-newsman and uses his knowledge of both the city and the print and television business to serve up a story that seems ripped from a screaming tabloid headline.
Television executive Clare Carlson was once a print reporter who made her bones covering the disappearance of 11-year-old Lucy Devlin, who went to school one day and disappeared, never to be found. It’s every parent’s nightmare and Carlson’s coverage led the pack, etching the anguished portrait of the girl’s parents and the frustration of cops watching a case grow stone cold, captivating hard-boiled New Yorkers and winning the Pulitzer Prize.
Fast forward 15 years. The girl’s mother, Anne, has a fresh lead — an anonymous e-mail that says a girl who looked a lot like Lucy was seen shortly after her disappearance at a rally of motorcycle gangs in New Hampshire, climbing on the back of a bike ridden by a guy named Elliott. Pretty thin stuff. Not unlike hundreds of other dead-end tips Anne Devlin had fielded in her endless search for her missing daughter.
Carlson knows this, but she made a promise to the mother — never let Lucy Devlin be forgotten. She steps out of her executive office and back in front of the camera to interview Anne Devlin, who drops a bombshell — she’s dying of lung cancer. In a heartbeat, yesterday’s news becomes today’s obsession for Carlson, resurrecting all her reporter’s instincts and the thrill of again stalking the hunter’s trail.
Belsky peppers the trail with memorable characters, including a motorcycle mama named Big Lou, the source of the e-mail who points Carlson toward trophy game — Elliott Grayson, a U.S. attorney running for the U.S. Senate. He’s the Elliott of that long-ago biker meet.
From there, the downhill run gets faster and the curves and switchbacks Belsky puts you through get sharper and scarier. Buckle up and take the ride. You won’t be disappointed.
Jim Nesbitt is the author of three hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers, The Right Wrong Number, The Last Second Chance and The Best Lousy Choice. All three are available in paperback or Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/author/jimnesbitt
Pat and Anne Devlin 11 year old daughter Lucy disappears one day. They are in a frantic to find her. Clare Carlson a TV reporter gets the scope and ends up with a Pulitzer Prize for reporting the story. Clare also promises Pat and Anne she will be there for them and help search for their daughter no matter how long it takes. Years go by then there’s a break in the case and Clare travels East to West following every clue, from talking with a politician to men in motorcycle gangs and so on.
I absolutely loved this book and wish I could give it 100+ stars. I’ve read some good books but this takes the cake. It read like a true story and I even googled it. I flew through the first 110 pages and then had to sleep (darn sleep). The next morning I picked it back up and didn’t stop till I was done. This book left me with my eyes bulging and my mouth open. I couldn’t believe the twists in this book. Even my cat was trying to nudge the book out of my hands. This Author is better than any James Patterson and Stephen King book I’ve read. I can’t wait to try his other books. Anybody else get paper cuts reading this? Excellent job by the Author. Bravo.
Thank you Good Reads Giveaways, Oceanview Publishing and of course the Author R.G. Belsky.
Cherie’
Intelligent, gripping, shocking and as an added benefit, a closeup look at television news production.
I’m not sure what I expected the end of this story to be, but the way it turned out surprised me. The turn of events was so unexpected as to be a bit unbelievable when it came to the character Anne, but still a good read …. thought provoking. Made me think about how easily we jump to conclusions about people – and how often that gets us in trouble!
Good easy read
While I liked the story, (that is until the end, when it became the sort of “then a unicorn came from the sky and that was why….” just made no sense at all), the main character was incredibly inept. She went into an interview where she thought she would have a ‘gotcha’ moment without even Googling the subject to see if her big scoop was something everyone already knew (it was). She was really not madly bright. And, there were editing problems like a secondary character was called “Donald” on one page and “David” two pages later. That said, I did finish the book (I’m old, don’t feel I have to finish something I don’t think is worth my time!).