Unfold the Evil

Reporter Natalie Joday s career is at a crossroads. She thought she d seen the last of cops and courtrooms, but if she agrees to join the Bergen Evening Star s crime bureau, foul play and forensics will be her daily fare. Natalie puts off the decision by getting involved in a newsroom mystery: who is sending letters filled with riddles and signed simply Enigma to the Star s elderly (and easily rattled) advice columnist? It s just a game to Natalie and her psychologist friend, Rebecca Elias, until the solution points to the murder of an alcoholic bankrupt, a man whose political career was ruined by the Star twenty years earlier. When she finds the body of a second victim, Natalie s mind is made up: whoever it was that burned off the dead man s face must pay. And fast because a rival paper, The Bugle, is having a field day blasting the Star s owners as murder suspects on its front page. While her sometime friend Sgt. Geoff Allan tries to drag the truth from Myra Vandergelden, the Star s glamorous CEO and editor in chief, Natalie sets out to track down Enigma among the political bigwigs and power brokers of New Jersey. The situation comes to a head at a local Meet the Candidates event, when Natalie gets the chance to ask questions of her chief suspect. But can she get a politician to tell the truth? And will there be a paper left to work for if she does?"