Story That Wouldn't Die: A Mystery

Christina Estes

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Story That Wouldn't Die: A Mystery

Story That Wouldn't Die: A Mystery

Christina Estes

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Description

Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes uses her twenty-year career for inspiration for her mysteries. In The Story That Wouldn't Die, Jolene Garcia refuses to stop investigating, but someone is determined to kill the story--and maybe her.

Phoenix, Arizona TV reporter Jolene Garcia is fresh off winning her first Emmy and committed to covering stories that matter to her community. But Jolene's managers want stories that grab immediate attention and generate clicks, not ones that take time to develop.

When a beloved small business owner dies in a car crash, Jolene isn't convinced it was an accident. He'd been raising questions about who keeps getting lucrative deals at city hall--questions that powerful people don't want answered. The deeper Jolene digs, the more suspicious things she uncovers.

Exposing greed, ambition, and deception could become the biggest story of Jolene's career. Her bosses tell her to drop it. But there's a story here, and Jolene's going to find it.

About the Author

CHRISTINA ESTES is an award-winning reporter who spent more than twenty years covering crime, public policy, and business for TV and radio stations in Phoenix, Arizona. Her reporting has appeared on CBS and National Public Radio (NPR). Christina's career inspired her mystery series featuring reporter Jolene Garcia, which began with Off the Air, winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest.

Critical Reviews

The Boston Globe - One of the New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

"Vibrant. . . A brain-teasing, fair-play puzzle." -Publishers Weekly

"The compelling mystery and pursuit of answers make Jolene a fun and engaging amateur detective." -First Clue

Praise for Off the Air

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

"[A] spirited debut." -Shelf Awareness

"A love letter to Phoenix disguised as an entertaining whodunnit." -Axios Phoenix

"Deftly takes us into the world of local news broadcasting with a tale that demonstrates how, behind the smiling faces of TV anchors, covering a big story is a dog-eat-dog world." -J. A. Jance

Publishing Information

Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pub date: 2025-08-19
Length: 320 pages

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