John Darnton

Black and White and Dead All over John Darnton

Publisher Marketing: Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the "New York Globe," the city s long-standing newspaper of note, whose back is to the wall. Readership, advertising, and circulation are plummeting along with the paper s vaunted standards and the cost cutters have their knives out. But trouble of a wholly different kind begins one rainy September morning when a powerful editor is found murdered in the newsroom, with the spike that he d wielded to kill stories hammered into his chest. The problem for Priscilla Bollingsworth, the young, ambitious female NYPD detective assigned to the case besides the fact that the mayor is breathing down her neck is that there are too many suspects to choose from. She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested waters whose denizens include the paper s resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when more bodies turn up, dead all over. Armed with the firsthand knowledge he has acquired through forty years in journalism, John Darnton conjures up the cynicism and romanticism of the profession and gives us a cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining if not yet murderous newspaper industry. "Black and White and Dead All Over" is a satirical mystery that entertains from first to last." Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2008 pg. 58 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 05/19/2008 pg. 31 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/15/2008 pg. 57 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2008 pg. 612 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 06/01/2008 pg. 47 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 08/03/2008 pg. 9 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 08/10/2008 pg. 22 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 08/25/2008 pg. 81 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) School Library Journal 11/01/2008 pg. 157 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2009 pg. 24 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Commonweal 06/19/2009 pg. 26 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 145 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 190 (EAN 9780307267528, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Darnton, John John Darnton, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for his journalism, is culture editor for "The New York Times" and the author of two novels, "The" "Experiment" and "Neanderthal". He lives in New York. Contributor Bio:  Gigante, Phil Phil Gigante is an APA Audie Award winner (The Dark Highlander, The Stainless Steel Rat, and The Watch That Ends the Night), and winner of over a dozen Audiofile Magazine Earphones Awards. He has narrated and directed more than 250 books, and was twice named a "Best Voice in Mystery and Suspense" by Audiofile Magazine. He has been named a Best Male Narrator in the categories of Romance, Science Fiction, Militaria, and Mystery/Suspense, as well as "Favorite Dual Narrator" (with Natalie Ross). Phil also works in film, TV and radio, and is the Producer/Director of Gigantic Productions theatre company. He makes his home in the Midwest.