The Friday Edition

Snow isn't all that's falling in Denver, Colorado on Christmas Eve. A beautiful, young district attorney tumbles to her death on Christmas Eve. Police suspect suicide, but the DA's sister, newspaper reporter Samantha Church, isn't buying it. Samantha discovers evidence linking her sister to a drug smuggling case and quickly learns she has stumbled onto a major news story. She must summon the courage to not only face a cartel of criminals, but her own fears and shortcomings when she is confronted by the inescapable specter of a far greater enemy-her addiction to alcohol. Samantha's dependency has not only cost her job at a major metropolitan daily, but, worse, custody of her daughter, April. Samantha pursues her sister's killers, maneuvering through a minefield of intrigue deliberately set out to divert her from the truth. Despite being betrayed, physically beaten and facing the possibility of sharing her sister's fate, Samantha refuses to stop her investigation. However, when the killers threaten to harm April, Samantha realizes that, for her daughter's sake, she can no longer continue the investigation on her own. She knows she must swallow her pride and turn to her ex-husband and police detective, Jonathan Church, for help. Can Samantha ultimately prevail-find her sister's killer, write the story of her career, confront her drinking problem, and finally begin to change her life, or will she and April become the killer's next victims?

Betta Ferrendelli has been an award-winning journalist since 1989, having worked at newspapers in Denver, Seattle and Albuquerque. She is the award-winning author of The Friday Edition, Revenge is Sweet and Dead Wrong, a mystery series featuring reporter Samantha Church. The Friday Edition earned a 2014 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal award in the fiction mystery, women sleuths category and was named one of the best books for 2013 by Kirkus Reviews.