Broadcast Blues -- Don't Mess with a Midlife Reporter (Thriller Book Review)
There are milestones, and then there are...well, milestones . Most of us likely share the same ones—no matter what order they actually occur. First kiss. Losing our virginity. Getting a driver’s license. Graduating. Getting our own place. Getting married (or entering some type of long-term relationship). And then, there are birthdays. Perhaps the biggest milestones, of all... despite the meaninglessness one day actually makes, of course. From 29 to 30... 39 to 40... 49 to 50 (etc.). For whatever reason(s), we’ve somehow arbitrarily agreed that the beginning of a new decade signals a new Big Scary Awful. And it’s with that looming in her mind— the impossible idea of turning 50(!!) —that TV newswoman Clare Carlson happens upon an equally-explosive story, in R.G. Belsky’s latest entry in the series, Broadcast Blues . When Clare hears that some sort of explosive detonated in a car in Manhattan—killing Wendy Kyle, a female private detective (and formerly an NYPD off