A review by vkemp
Eyes of the Innocent by Brad Parks

4.0

Carter Ross sticks with the newspaper business even though it is falling down around him. He writes for the Newark Eagle-Examiner, doing whatever the editor tells him to do, so he heads off to write a space heater story about a burned down house that killed two little boys. What he finds is a lot bigger than that. Stuck with one of the interns, Carter takes her along and they find the homeowner in the kitchen of the burned out house. Lauren charms Akilah Harris into telling them her story: the house was owned by a city councilman who was Akilah's boyfriend. Then everything comes crashing down. Turns out the city councilman was on the grift to a Brazilian developer and a lot of people got in the way. Fast-paced and snarky, just how I like my mysteries.