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. ( )