Jan Brogan has been a journalist for twenty years. She is a former staff writer at the Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts and currently works as a correspondent for the Boston Globe. Her freelance work has appeared in Boston Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, Ladies Home Journal, and Forbes.

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TEASER
Hallie Ahearn Mysteries Series
St. Martin’s Press, December 2008
Genre: Mystery & Suspense
Agent: Dan Mandel

Hallie Ahern, a Providence, Rhode Island, reporter and recovering gambling addict, is trawling online chat rooms in search of a story for her newspaper’s Web site when an anonymous source sends her a short video clip, a teaser. When one of them agrees to meet with her, Hallie thinks she has a front page expose for the Chronicle.

But when the girl, Lexie, doesn’t show up for their meeting, Hallie fears that the girl’s life is in danger and decides she must try to find her. Her search will take her from crummy apartments, to dilapidated motels to the finest yachts in Newport. Along the way, she’ll learn more about the dark side of online networking than she ever wanted to know.

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