Drive Time
Investigative reporter Charlotte McNally is an expert at keeping things confidential, but suddenly everyone has a secret—and it turns out it is possible to know too much.
Her latest scoop—an exposé of a dangerous car scam, complete with stakeouts, high-speed chases and hidden-camera footage—is ratings gold. But soon that leads her to a brand-new and diabolical scheme. Charlie's personal and professional lives are on a collision course, too. Her fiancé is privy to information about threats at an elite private school that have turned deadly.
Charlie has never counted on happy endings. But now, just as she's finally starting to believe in second chances, she realizes revenge, extortion and murder may leave her alone again—or even dead….
ReviewStarred* Ryan in same league as Lisa Scottoline*...catapults the reader into fast lane and doesn't relent til the story careens to a stop. New readers will speed to get earlier books, and diehard fans hope for another installment.
--Library Journal
Now an ANTHONY NOMINEE! Best Paperback Original of 2010
Now an AGATHA NOMINEE!Best Mystery Novel of 2010
Now a DAPHNE NOMINEE!Best Mainstream Novel of 2010
"Hank P Ryan knows the television business entirely; she understands plotting; and she writes beautifully. No wonder I loved DRIVE TIME. Anyone would."
----Robert Parker, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Spenser for Hire mysteries
"Superb series...Ryan's ability to portray these universal dilemmas is her true genius, and one that makes this series an enduring joy to read.""I love this series!" --Suzanne Brockmann
About the AuthorAgatha, Anthony and Macavity award-winning investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is on the air at Boston's NBC affiliate. Her work has resulted in new laws, people sent to prison, homes removed from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in restitution. Along with her 26 EMMYs, Hank's won dozens of other journalism honors. She's been a radio reporter, a legislative aide in the United States Senate and an editorial assistant at Rolling Stone Magazine working with Hunter S. Thompson.
Her first mystery, the best-selling PRIME TIME, won the Agatha for Best First Novel. It was also was a double RITA nominee for Best First Book and Best Romantic Suspense Novel, and a Reviewers' Choice Award Winner. FACE TIME and AIR TIME are IMBA bestsellers, and AIR TIME was nominated for the AGATHA and ANTHONY Award. (Of AIR TIME, Sue Grafton says: "This is first-class entertainment.") DRIVE TIME, February 2010 from MIRA Books, just earned a starred review from Library Journal saying it "puts Ryan in a league with Lisa Scottoline."
Hank's short story "On The House" won the AGATHA, ANTHONY and MACAVITY for Best Short Story of 2009..
Hank is on the board of New England Sisters in Crime and the national board of Mystery Writers of America.
Her website is HankPhillippiRyan.com