As the Wicked Watch
Books | Fiction / Horror
3.6
Tamron Hall
The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two young Black women, the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scene--in impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a master's degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts, Jordan has been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big story--and giving a voice to the voiceless. From her time in Texas, she's covered the vilest of human behaviors but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. Jordan is that rare breed of a journalist who can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a newsroom--often noticing what others tend to miss. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of Black women, many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten. All until Masey James--the story that Jordan just can't shake, despite all efforts. A 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration and anger that her job often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her work and her fraying personal life aside, Jordan does everything she can to give the story the coverage it desperately requires, and that a missing Black child would so rarely get. There's a serial killer on the loose, Jordan believes, and he's hiding in plain sight.
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Author
Tamron Hall
Pages
544
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Date
2021-10-26
ISBN
0063117746 9780063117747
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"ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS!! I’m looking forward to the next book in this series. This book kept me engaged throughout the entire story and had some surprising plot twist all while being beautifully written. "
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Crystal Stinson
"It’s a good book. It does start off a bit slow. And I feel the introduction to the main character was a little bit too long, and for that reason it seemed like a long time for the book to get into the plot. Once the plot started being revealed, it was a much better read that I really wanted to get to the end of and I couldn’t put it down by the end. The plot was great but because of how is was drug out at the beginning, I’m rating a 4. The author definitely has potential and I’m looking forward to the next one. Would read again. "
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Jessica Allen
"There’s something about stories that feature locations you are familiar with. Even when the story stalls, the familiarity of locale can keep your interest. That’s what happens here. Chicago figures prominently in Tamron Hall’s first installment of her Jordan Manning series, and that’s a good thing. At time the voice of the book becomes a bit preachy, and Hall’s Jordan Manning at times comes across as a little extra. I can appreciate that as a first installment it’s a lot of character development and world building going on, but some characters are introduced then we hear nothing else from them for stretches of time. It took too long for the dots to be connected and at one point, I had to go back and re-read a portion to understand one relationship. Could have gotten to where it was going with about 30 pages less, but all in all, for a first outing, it’s an admirable effort, and the insight into the hubub of newsrooms and the bureaucracy of police departments was interesting."