Muddy the Water

<p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>? </span><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Winner of the Literary Global Book Award for Debut Fiction </strong><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> This snappy suspenseful thriller will keep you guessing until the final chapter and will make you wonder-can anyone be a journalist?</strong><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - Katie Couric journalist and author</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tremendous book. You'll be transfixed.</strong><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> -- Peter King sportswriter and author</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>It grabs you by the collar and won't let go.</strong><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - Jo Piazza bestselling author of </span><em style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Sicilian Inheritance</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Description:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A popular fishing captain is murdered on his own trawler and everyone in Haversport Massachusetts knows the culprit is a young deckhand named Ben Broome including Detective Lillian Grimes. But Ben has discovered the perfect hiding place: as a reporter writing for the tiny Coastal Packet a newspaper down in South Carolina.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When a half-eaten body washes in it becomes the biggest story in the paper's history and brings cunning charismatic Ben immediate success. But it also leads Grimes closer to the truth. She soon teams up with hungry rival reporter Florence Park to hunt Ben down before he can charm-or kill-his way to freedom.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(48 48 48 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Shown from three perspectives killer detective and reporter Muddy the Water brings readers inside the newsroom of a struggling small newspaper on the bucolic South Carolina coast and speaks to the concept of identity-and whether anyone ever shows his or her true self.</span></p>