Details at Ten (Electronic book text)

Set in the fast-paced, cut-throat world of television news and featuring a devoted and funny African-American reporter, Ardella Garland's fresh new mystery series is packed with moxie. The brutally honest tale of a girl who disappears after she admits, during a live television interview, to witnessing a drive-by shooting on Chicago's gang-torn South Side, Details at Ten boasts all the taut plotting of the finest mysteries as well as the sister-girlfriend humor of Terry McMillan.

Reporter Georgia Barnett, our wonderfully appealing protagonist, is haunted by her sense of responsibility for the young girl's fate and heartbroken at seeing her old neighborhood devastated by violence. She throws herself into the search and clashes with tough Detective Doug Eckart at every turn. These made-for-each-other enemies form a sexually tense truce as a simple missing-persons case mushrooms into a citywide effort to nab one of the most powerful gang leaders in Chicago. As Georgia struggles against the ratings-driven complacency of her producers and their reluctance to follow yet another story of tragedy in a poor black neighborhood, readers glimpse the inner-workings of broadcast news -- and of a whipsmart protagonist with an undying passion for the truth.