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Yesterday's News
Yesterday's News
Yesterday's News
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Yesterday's News

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"Tell me what happened to my daughter?" For fifteen years this anguished plea has haunted reporter Clare Carlson

When eleven-year-old Lucy Devlin disappeared on her way to school more than a decade ago, it became one of the most famous missing child cases in history.

The story turned reporter Clare Carlson into a media superstar overnight. Clare broke exclusive after exclusive. She had unprecedented access to the Devlin family as she wrote about the heartbreaking search for their young daughter. She later won a Pulitzer Prize for her extraordinary coverage of the case.

Now Clare once again plunges back into this sensational story. With new evidence, new victims, and new suspects—too many suspects. Everyone from members of a motorcycle gang to a prominent politician running for a US Senate seat seem to have secrets they're hiding about what really might have happened to Lucy Devlin.

But Clare has her own secrets. And in order to untangle the truth about Lucy Devlin, she must finally confront her own torturous past.

Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and Harlan Coben

While all of the novels in the Clare Carlson Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:

Yesterday's News
Below the Fold
The Last Scoop
Beyond the Headlines
It's News to Me
(coming in 2022)
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 1, 2018
ISBN9781608092826
Yesterday's News
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R. G. Belsky

R.G. Belsky lives in New York City.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Dick Belsky’s long association with New York City news media—newspapers, magazines, and television—stand him in good stead in his Manhattan-based crime novels. He makes the newsroom politics entertaining, and the city’s bustle and bravado leap off the page. They become places you want to be. In this book, he offers a new protagonist, Clare Carlson, former superstar newspaper reporter whose employer (like so many) went out of business. Now she’s the news director for Channel 10 News, and while she likes some aspects of the job—“telling other people what to do,” she says—she clearly believes television “news” is a lesser form of journalism, well beneath her talents and skills. She’s probably right.Yesterday’s News is a title with multiple meanings, referring to the newspaper business, Carlson herself, and the one big story from fifteen years earlier that made her reputation and earned her a Pulitzer Prize—the disappearance of eleven-year-old Lucy Devlin, plucked from her Gramercy Park neighborhood and never found. The anniversary of Lucy’s disappearance is fast approaching when you feel the first twist of Belsky’s knife. When she was working on the story, Carlson befriended Lucy’s mother Anne, and now Anne is dying of cancer, desperate for closure. She has received an anonymous email claiming that, shortly after her disappearance, Lucy was seen at a motorcycle convention in rural New Hampshire, riding with someone named Elliott. She wants to talk to Carlson.Like almost everyone else, Carlson assumes Lucy was dead long ago. Can she—should she?—rekindle her relationship with Anne? It’s a “good TV gimmick,” she thinks, though she has reasons to be reluctant.This is a first-person narrative, and Belsky does a good job portraying Carlson’s mixed feelings about reinserting herself into this story. She thinks she knows it all, but he has surprises in store for her, and you may think you know everything she knows, but she can surprise as well. Plus, Carlson can be hilarious. She expertly plays the two female eye-candy news readers off each other, leaving political correctness in the dust.Carlson does interview Anne and soon launches into full investigatory mode, rummaging around in people’s fifteen-year-old memories. These include the activities of a sketchy motorcycle gang and, specifically, the past of ex-biker and rising political star Elliott Grayson. Some of the dirt she encounters may not leave Carlson with clean hands either. The tension between Carlson and Grayson and the unexpected directions the investigation takes make for an engrossing, fun read—with a visit to Manhattan as a bonus.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is the first book I have read by this author. Yet, I can guarantee you that it will not be the last book I read from this author. You could say that this book and the main lead, Clare hooked me right away. Therefore, I am going to say #instalove. It was like I had been with Clare for years. Yet, this is the first book in a new series featuring Clare. Which, if the rest of the books are anything like this one, I am in for a real treat. Clare is very engaging. She made me follow her wherever she went. Although, I will say Clare's reporter instincts were not as sharp as they could have been but I am sure that Clare's skills will be more focused in the next book. Lastly, can we talk about the ending. I did not see it coming. I was blindsided (in a good way). Wow. You really do have to read this book if for nothing else than the ending. Yesterday's News is today's #instahit!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.Clare is a TV news executive, previously a print journalist, and agrees to revisit the story that made her famous; the disappearance of 11 year old Lucy Devlin 15 years ago. Lucy has never been found and her mother claims to have a new lead. This lead appears to implicate Elliott, a Democratic candidate for the Senate. I am giving this novel three stars, being the average of the first half, which was a solid four stars, and then the second half (to which I award two stars) where the plot went absolutely crazy. There were threads of humour through the narration, especially around the fluffy "news" items the station runs, which I enjoyed, and things moved along at a good pace. Clare seemed a fairly undistinguished journalist, despite her oft-referred to Pulitzer prize, requiring others to point things out to her and giving up her source to Elliott without a qualm.I can't really go into my thoughts about the second half without giving things away, but there were elements that I found fantastic and/or unlikely to the point of impossibility, and one in particular that seemed a dishonest late reveal to the reader. Clare's musings at the end about all the things she couldn't be sure about felt lazy - did the author even know what really happened?

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