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Carole Nelson Douglas (Author)

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From Publishers Weekly

As the daughter of a famous newspaper editor, Liz Jordan is destined to become a reporter. Indeed, her success story practically writes itself. She earns a journalism degree and is immediately hired as a reporter for a Midwest newspaper, where she makes a name for herself by covering such issues as abortion and latchkey children. Aggressive and ambitious, Liz moves to broadcasting to further her career, and as a television newswoman continues with timely investigative topics, keeping her eye on a spot with the network. Then she gets her big break as the co-anchor of a national morning news show in New York, and sacrifices family, friends and lovers, discovering what it takes to make it to the top. Full of cliches and stereotypes, this is too predictable to take seriously.
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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (February 12, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345319931
• ISBN-13: 978-0345319937
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,385,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

With her home office a Twilight Zone landscape of mannequins in vintage dress, no wonder award-winning ex-journalist and novelist Carole Nelson Douglas's 55 novels range from historical and contemporary mystery and romance to science fiction thrillers to high and urban fantasy. They include two Las Vegas-set series: the Midnight Louie, feline PI, mysteries partially narrated by a "Sam Spade with hairballs" and the Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator, noir urban fantasies of werewolf mobsters and Silver Screen zombies in a paranormal Vegas.

Douglas was the first author of a Sherlockian series with a female protagonist, diva-detective Irene Alder, the only woman to outwit Holmes, debuting with the New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Good Night, Mr. Holmes. Rachel McAdams plays Irene in the Dec. 25 film with Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock. Douglas says if she has a literary muse, it's definitely feline: mysterious, wise, playful, and packing sharp shivs in velvet gloves.