Murder at the News Desk: A Small-Town Newsroom Cozy Mystery

About Murder at the News Desk: A Small-Town Newsroom Cozy Mystery

Evie Grayson was about to run the story that would blow Wrenwood wide open. She never made it past her news desk. Wrenwood Radio barely survived the pledge drive.

The town wants “normal,” the board wants obedience, and I’m expected to stay on mic and stop asking questions. Then Evie, the Gazette’s toughest reporter and my occasional news contributor, misses our check-in. I find her slumped at her desk with a station remote-mic kit beside her, the kind of neat little “workplace accident” everyone is desperate to accept.

Except the newsroom door cameras don’t make sense. The equipment setup is wrong. And at midnight, the station plays a segment that was never meant to air.

Evie was digging into engineered callers, sponsor pressure, and the way certain people in Wrenwood can steer what gets broadcast and what gets buried. The moment I push back, my old scandal gets dragged up like a leash and the town turns eager, hungry, and sure I’m the problem. Now I have to solve a murder inside a newsroom full of secrets and egos, while someone with system-level access keeps intercepting the truth in real time.

Because this killer doesn’t just want Evie silenced. They want the story rewritten.