Bad News

Ridge Falls is a town with secrets. When 15-year-old Kimmy Duchette goes missing, suspicion immediately falls on a mysterious loner named Thomas Roper. Is he guilty, or are dark forces in Ridge Falls willing to do anything – even condemn an innocent man – in order to cover up the truth?

Maggie Carter's career as a TV news journalist is in freefall. Determined to be as devious, deceptive and duplicitous as her most successful colleagues, she heads to Ridge Falls on a one-woman mission to discover the truth about Kimmy's disappearance. As far as she's concerned, the case should be easy enough to crack. All she has to do is look in the right places.

Maggie soon discovers, however, that nothing in Ridge Falls is simple. Is Kimmy alive or dead? Is Thomas Roper a murderer who already got away with one crime, or the victim of lies and smears? And is the handsome local sheriff really on Maggie's side, or is he part of a terrifying conspiracy?

Bad News is a horror novel about a girl's disappearance, and about a reporter's determination to do whatever it takes to get to the truth. This is the 2022 edition of the original 2019 book.