New Indie Book Release:
The Friday Edition - Betta Ferrendelli -
Mystery (December 2012 - 308 pages)
"While The Friday Edition establishes itself as a newspaper story, it feels much more like a classic whodunit. The novel builds nicely into a captivating third act that provides twists that manage to shock without feeling contrived. Although the mystery is solved at the end, we are left wondering what might be in store for Sam Church and hoping that we haven't heard the last of her." - Reader Review
About the Book
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A beautiful young woman, who also happens to be a Truman County Assistant DA, tumbles from her apartment balcony to her death on Christmas Eve. The incident is ruled a suicide, but the DA’s sister, newspaper reporter Samantha Church, isn’t buying it. Feverishly Samantha throws herself into finding out what really happened to her sister. She pursues her sister’s killers, maneuvering through a minefield of intrigue deliberately set out to divert her from the truth. She invariably stumbles when confronted by the inescapable specter of a greater enemy: the alcohol dependency that has already cost her the respect of her peers, and, worse, custody of her daughter.
Samantha must summon the courage to face not only a cartel of criminals, but also her own demons. Physically threatened and betrayed, she nearly defeats herself through her own insecurities and fears. She not only must summon the courage to get beyond her own shortcomings, but she must work quickly to beat her nemesis—a reporter at the major metropolitan daily newspaper, who is also in close pursuit of the developing story.
Can Samantha ultimately prevail, write the biggest story of her career, and finally begin to change her life before it is too late?
About the Author
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| Author Betta Ferrendelli |
In 2010, she landed an agent for a nonfiction project, Open Wide, a children's book about a dentist in Denver, Colorado who was the founder and pioneer of wild animal dentistry. Betta’s agent secured a good book contract in 2011 with Tricycle Press, a division of Random House. Betta had had several conversations with her editor about the direction of the book. One day she came home and had a voice message from her agent and her editor. They both had one thing to say: Random House had closed Tricycle Press. Because her project was still in the developmental stages, it was cancelled. She did, however, get the first part of her advance. She considers that a success!
In July 2012, Betta published her first ebook on Amazon, The Friday Edition, the first in a mystery series featuring Samantha Church, a troubled reporter who tries to set aside her own personal and professional problems to get through a corrupt police department to discover her sister’s murderer. The paperback was released in December. Betta has finished the second book in the series: Revenge is Sweet is the story of Sam and the publisher of her newspaper who are kidnapped. It is expected to publish in the summer of 2013.
