Sensational journalism has never been so deadly.
The weekly cable news show Judgment Day with Suzanne Kidwell promises to expose businessmen, religious leaders, and politicians for the lies they tell. Suzanne positions herself as a champion of ethics and morality with a backbone of steel—until a revelation of her shoddy investigation tactics and creative fact embellishing put her in hot water with her employers, putting her credibility in question and threatening her professional ambitions..
Bitter and angry, Suzanne returns home one day to find an entrepreneur she is investigating, John Edward Sterling, unconscious on her living room floor. Before the night is over, Sterling is dead, she has his blood on her hands, and the police are arresting her for murder. She needs help to prove her innocence, but her only hope, private investigator Marcus Crisp, is also her ex-fiancé–the man she betrayed in college.
Marcus and his partner Alexandria Fisher-Hawthorne reluctantly agree to take the case, but they won’t cut Suzanne any slack. Exposing her lack of ethics and the lives she’s destroyed in her fight for ratings does little to make them think Suzanne is innocent. But as Marcus digs into the mire of secrets surrounding her enemies, he unveils an alliance well-worth killing for. Now all he has to do is keep Suzanne and Alex alive long enough to prove it.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 3/5
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Language - 0/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 2/5
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Summary
From: Isaac Scego
Book Title: Judgement Day
Book Author: Wanda Dyson
What do you like about this book:
Summery::
There's no doubt that Miss Wanda Dyson knows how to tell a story, but will that story by worth the time spent on it? That's a different question entirely. Judgement Day is a fast-paced thriller, but a predictable one. I do have to give it credit where credit is due, but I cannot give this novel any more than a simple "okay."
Sexual Content::
Suzanne had a past relationship with Marcus, which ended when she was found "tangled in the sheets" with his best friend. This is mentioned throughout the book. Suzanne also has a bad habit of flirting to get information. Her and her boyfriend kiss several times. A woman's husband is said to be found in a "less than desirable" situation with a bartender named Robert. Another girl leaves home to spend the night at her fiancé's apartment. Talk of affairs, pornography, child pornography, pedophile, and prostitution. On the subject of prostitution, there's a chapter that takes place in a brothel, featuring prostitutes hanging over customers' shoulders. One is beaten during one of her "appointments." A girl brings people to her employers in any way she can, including convincing boys they they would be spending the night at her place.
Violent Content::
Multiple young teens are kidnapped. A man is said to have committed suicide. A car wreck is pretty vivid and intense. Someone is confronted in an apartment complex and beaten, as is another woman. People are stabbed and shot. Someone is said to've been beaten. Some of it can get pretty bloody.
[Spoiler Warning] The people who are kidnapping are using them for black-market organ harvesting, removing their organs so they can sell them for a high price to whoever needs them.
Language::
None.
Drug/Alcohol Content::
People smoke, drink, and get drunk pretty much throughout the book. Knockout drugs are referenced to quite a few times.
Recommendation:: 2.5/5
PG-13 - Disturbing violent content, thematic material and some sexual material
Your ratings of the level of sex, violence, language and drug/alcohol use on a scale of 1-5.
Sex:2
Violence:3
Language:0
Drug/Alcohol use:2