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Bury the Lede by Gabe Dunn
3.0

This fast paced, fun, pulp tale introduces Madison Jackson, a young bisexual journalist trying to work her way up from intern to full reporter at The Boston Lede. She works night shifts listening to police scanners in hopes of getting a scope and eventually a byline. When wealthy socialite Dahlia Kennedy is found covered in blood at the scene of her husband's corpse, she is arrested on suspicion of murder both of her husband and her missing son. For some reason, Dahlia chooses to speak to Madison and no one else from the press. Madison has to wade through Dahlia's tangle of hints and lies to try and find the truth. This story is not a murder mystery in the sense that the reader could solve the crime through clues laid out in the text. A few of the twist and turns seemed to come kind of out of left field, but I enjoyed Madison's relationship with her work crush, sexy butch Lexington Ford, her newspaper mentors, her long-suffering police source, and her rivalry with her hotshot opposite number at the city's trashier paper. I have a feeling this book may be the first of the series; I'll look forward to more if/when they arrive! The art and colors are both very lovely, and I enjoy seeing a diverse cast like this in a crime story.