The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks
New Jersey reporter Carter Ross
works for the Newark Examiner-Eagle.
(The writer is a reporter with the Star-Ledger so you can tell what he’s
really talking about here.) He’s an investigative
reporter which means he is at liberty to pick and choose his own stories most
of the time. He’s intriuged by the
obituary for a newspaper delivery person who has died young, so he attends her
funeral to write about her. Since she
delivered the paper he works for he thinks it only fitting. At the funeral he learns that she died in a
hit and run accident (should have read the crime blotter in his own paper a
little more closely) and one of the deceased’s relatives wants Ross to look
into who killed her sister. Did a drunk
driver kill the delivery person? Or was
it murder?
Told in a sarcastic and witty style
with plenty of New Jersey landmarks thrown in this is a great quick read. The mystery is good but he giggles are
better. If you’re in the mood for
something on the lighter side this is a good pick.
