Hello everyone,

Hallie is back!

Yesterday’s Fatal, the second in the series, has just been published on May 1 by St. Martin’s Minotaur. When my protagonist, Hallie Ahern covers a fatal accident that doesn’t make deadline, it gets relegated to the inside pages, where everyone, including the police and the victim’s family would like it to remain buried. But with the Providence Chronicle facing layoffs, Hallie needs a story to prove her value on the investigative team, and when she learns that the victim’s husband works for a local mobster with a rap sheet for insurance fraud, she starts to wonder if the fatal was really an “accident.”

Hallie is working hard to repay her gambling debts and to stay away from the casino, but she still doesn’t have the best coping skills. Especially after she breaks up with her boyfriend, prosecutor Matt Cavanaugh. She begins to channel her need for action into an increasingly dangerous investigation that takes her into a shadowy underworld of body shop thugs and immigrant gangs. And in this high stakes game, she could lose a lot more than her money.

I live outside Boston, but commuting distance to Providence, where I worked for many years as a newspaper reporter. In this book, I get to cross state lines from the seamy side of Providence to the seamy side of Boston.

But it’s not all darkness, as Hallie gets to live on the affluent East Side, eat at Providence’s best restaurants and even fit in a PawSox game while she tries her best to get some sort of life outside the newspaper business.

I’ll be giving away a signed book, a PawSox cap and a Dunkin Donuts gift certificate in my next contest. Please check out the contest page!

All best,

• "Brogan does what author Dr. Michael Palmer does, and that is take a social ill, and weave some credible fiction around it with terrific results. This is a dynamite pulse-pounding read. I loved it." Books by Nancy, The Kingston Observer. Read the full review here
• Yesterday’s Fatal was named one of the top five summer hardcover picks by Neil Novik (The Odyssey Bookstore, South Hadley, MA) on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio (WAMC—FM)
• The Providence Journal Invites Us To "Kick Back And Enjoy" Yesterday's Fatal. Click here to read their brilliant write-up.
• The Boston Globe Raves: "Fatal puts a timely spin on a deadly scam". Read the full review here
• The Tampa Tribune loves Yesterday's Fatal. A Killer Review!
• "Brogan’s secret to good writing is in the rewriting", from the Providence Journal
• Yesterday’s Fatal was named a “Killer Book” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association
• A Hard-Hitting Interview with Hallie Ahern - Protagonist of A Confidential Source and Yesterday's Fatal
• Read an interview with Jan about Yesterday's Fatal, conducted by the Daily News Transcript.
• Jan was recently interviewed on the popular Women's website "DivineDivaDelights" about her new novel, Yesterday's Fatal. Click here to read all about the new book and for Jan's take on her career as a popular mystery author.
• Jan is honored to be a contributor to Mystery Muses, a collection of essays by today’s mystery authors about the classics that inspired them. It’s published by Crum Creek Press and available at bookstores and by clicking here.
• Hear Jan Brogan talk about A Confidential Source: Jan was recently interviewed on a program called 'A Story To Tell.' Her segment is the second on this show, nearly 8 minutes into the broadcast. To listen to an audio clip of the interview, please click here.