Who better to write a thriller about a female reporter than Mary Louise Kelly, currently reporting on air on NPR? Anonymous Sources (#974) is her debut novel, but I'm happy to say it's not her last. I tracked down Anonymous Sources online because I enjoyed The Bullet, her next book, so much. (See my post of 7/22/20.)
Alexandra James is assigned to cover the death of a student at Harvard in a fall from a dormitory roof, as she has the Higher Education beat at Boston's New England Chronicle. She's annoyed to be pulled away from a dinner engagement, but when she finds out that Thomas Carlyle is the son of the President's Chief Counsel in Washington, she realizes that the story will go national. She persuades her boss to send her to Cambridge University, where Thom has just completed a year as the Harvard Scholar. Her own year spent at Cambridge, she argues, will give her an "in" to interview Thom's girlfriend and fellow students, and dig up human interest angles the other news media won't have.
What she finds out leads her to suspect that Thom did not commit suicide, and that her questions have put her directly in the crosshairs of a plot that leads directly to Washington, D.C.
Really interesting character development, and a taut plot make this book hard to put down. It's a real adrenaline rush from someone who knows the ins and outs of her protagonist's profession. Don't miss this one even if it does keep you up at night!
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