Jessica Greer has finally landed her first theater column. There’s just one problem: she knows almost nothing about theater.
Pittsburgh, 1992. Jessica Greer has a respectable PR job, and a journalism degree she refuses to let die. She’s been pitching the local alternative newsweekly for months until, at last, her big break arrives.
She leaps at the chance to write a theater review. She knows next-to-nothing about theater.
As a first assignment, it’s harmless enough. Good for keeping her byline alive anyway. When the play turns out to be worse than she could have imagined, Jessica writes exactly what she thinks.
She’s the toast of the town. Offered a new, don’t-quit-your-day-job theater column at the alt weekly. And she has no clue how far her enemy will go to tear her down.
STEEL CITY BURN is a darkly funny suspense novella about ambition, reputation, and one young journalist discovering what it costs to have opinions while female. .
This expanded 85-page edition includes the complete 65-page story, a guide to the characters, a map of Jessica’s Pittsburgh, and L.L. Kirchner’s essay on why 1990s Pittsburgh became the world of the Steel City Mysteries.
Genre: Mystery
Pittsburgh, 1992. Jessica Greer has a respectable PR job, and a journalism degree she refuses to let die. She’s been pitching the local alternative newsweekly for months until, at last, her big break arrives.
She leaps at the chance to write a theater review. She knows next-to-nothing about theater.
As a first assignment, it’s harmless enough. Good for keeping her byline alive anyway. When the play turns out to be worse than she could have imagined, Jessica writes exactly what she thinks.
She’s the toast of the town. Offered a new, don’t-quit-your-day-job theater column at the alt weekly. And she has no clue how far her enemy will go to tear her down.
STEEL CITY BURN is a darkly funny suspense novella about ambition, reputation, and one young journalist discovering what it costs to have opinions while female. .
This expanded 85-page edition includes the complete 65-page story, a guide to the characters, a map of Jessica’s Pittsburgh, and L.L. Kirchner’s essay on why 1990s Pittsburgh became the world of the Steel City Mysteries.
Genre: Mystery
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