Fotografía de autor

Jan Brogan

Autor de A Confidential Source

5 Obras 112 Miembros 2 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Jan Brogan is an award-winning journalist and novelist living in Boston. A former staff writer for the Providence Journal and the Worcester Telegram, her freelance work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, and Forbes.

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Obras de Jan Brogan

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Brogan, Jan
Fecha de nacimiento
20th Century
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugares de residencia
Clifton, New Jersey, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Educación
B.J. Boston University, Boston, Mass. USA
Ocupaciones
journalist
Biografía breve
I grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, where I learned to wear tight clothes and a lot of makeup. Clifton was both urban and very small town. My father, a lawyer and former city councilor, knew everyone – especially the cops, which made my teenage years challenging. But my father also knew an infamous cop charged with murder. After the acquittal, I was granted an interview and wrote my first murder story at 15 years old for my high school paper. I went to Boston University where I majored in journalism, worked on a college paper that went defunct, and waitressed at The Eliot Lounge -- the backdrop for Addy’s first meeting with the suspect, Kit Korbanics, in Final Copy.

Also, at B.U., I became friends with a man who would become a major criminal and be executed gangland style. His story is the inspiration for one of the subplots in Final Copy. I got the idea for A Confidential Source years ago, listening to former mayor Buddy Cianci’s drive time talk radio show as I headed home each night from the Providence newsroom. Amused by the abject adoration of the listeners, I decided I wanted my protagonist to be addicted to talk radio. I had no idea who was going to be murdered.

I live in a suburb between Boston and Providence with my husband, two children, a dog and a bird. When I’m not writing, I play tennis. Transplanted to New England, I’ve become a Red Sox fan and lately have started to read the sports page first and listen to talk radio. Unlike Hallie, I’ve yet to call in.

Miembros

Reseñas

We have all been warned about the dangers of the internet many times over, especially for children. There are predators lurking out there, sometimes pretending to be who they are not, preying on the young.

Jan Brogan’s Teaser takes readers into that world as Chronicle reporter Hallie Ahern investigates a possible sex ring involving teen girls. As a former gambling addict, Hallie has turned to chat rooms to keep herself occupied and out of trouble. One night Hallie stumbles onto what will become a career make it or break it story. She finds a video clip of two girls in a provocative situation, with a promise of more to come—in other words, a teaser. Hallie’s investigation into the video and her search for the two girls involved, lead her into dark territory. Drugs, sex, and murder are all tangled together in a complex web of conspiracy. The more she learns, the more complicated things become and the more danger Hallie finds herself in.

I instantly liked the character of Hallie Ahern. She has a reporter’s tenacity and dedication to her job, but she also takes time to think things through—even if at times she ends up going with her first impulsive thought. She is aware of the toll her choices have on her personal life, which is where her more vulnerable side comes out. Her live-in boyfriend is a prosecutor who has made sacrifices in his career because of his love for Hallie. In Teaser, Hallie finds herself facing difficult choices—follow the story and risk losing the man she loves or hand over the reins to someone else. Her quandary is complicated by the fact that she cares about what happens to the girls she meets on her quest for the news story. These warring factions only prove to deepen Hallie’s character, and endear her more to the reader.

Jan Brogan also takes readers inside the newspaper business, where the financial impact and worth of stories are negotiated and decided upon. I liked that the staff of the newspaper worked so well together (most of the time). They seemed like a real team even off on their individual assignments, and each of the characters in the newsroom were interesting in their own ways.

Teaser is a compelling novel that had me glued to the pages, turning them as fast as I could to find out what would happen next. While this is the third book in the series featuring investigative reporter, Hallie Ahern, it stands on its own quite well. I look forward to going back in the series and seeing where Hallie got her start.
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½
 
Denunciada
LiteraryFeline | Jan 19, 2009 |
A reporter who has banished to the boonies is sucked into a story when the manager of her local market is shot dead. She can identify the man who's responsible, and after she writes it up for the paper the killer knows it. A late night talk show radio host tells her the murdered man was in trouble over gambling debts. But as she tries to find out what's behind it all, her own gambling addiction gets her in trouble. The main character is ambitious but terribly insecure, and her self-justification when she sits down to gamble is so uncomfortably real it's fairly harrowing. I'd like to see more of her in the newsroom - that's authentic, too, and I'd rather be there than the casino.… (más)
½
 
Denunciada
bfister | May 19, 2007 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
5
Miembros
112
Popularidad
#174,306
Valoración
3.2
Reseñas
2
ISBNs
15

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