SPEAK ILL OF THE LIVING (Journalist-Massachusetts-Cont) – VG
Arsenault, Mark – 2nd in series
Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover
Eddie Bourque is a free-lance reporter and journalism teacher in Lowell, Massachusetts; the home of Jack Kerouac. When a picture of a bank president, thought to have been murdered months earlier, appears in a local newspaper holding a current paper, Eddie is asked to take the story national. When he receives the same picture with the words "I know More...

Our reporter/investigator/hero Eddie Bourque is the much (20 years) younger brother of Hank, who is serving life for the theft of 1MM lbs of gold and the murder of the two security guards guarding the gold. Why is this relevant? At first we're not sure, but slowly the kidnapping (and possible murder) of businessman Rick Lime, the suicide of the coroner Caine and the death of the writer/editor/dogsbody of the Lowell weekly start to tie together. The ending is nicely ambiguous - what will Eddie More...