Yet again, I prove that first person books, written well, are actually palatable. Maybe I've just gotten hold of a lot of bad first person books, which seems likely.
Expose is a book about, well, an expose. Several actually. It's written in the point of view of Ms. Van Wormer's character, Sally Harrington. Working for the local newspaper in her hometown of Castleford, Connecticut, Sally stumbles across, quite literally, a couple having a medical emergency. Through her cool and calm, she manages to save the day and impress the Verity Rhodes, who is a big name, big shot publishing executive.
Verity, taken with Sally, invites her first to dinner, and then invites her to do a story on a big television executive in New York. And things rapidly get out of hand. Sally stumbles, again, over a dead body, thanks to a tip from Crazy Pete, the local conspiracy theory guy. She meets a book publisher with a somewhat sordid past, and finds out more than she wanted to about the target of her expose, Cassy Cochran.
It's hard to summarize a book that packs so many twists into a review that doesn't seem cluttered, or that makes the book seem less than it is. Suffice it to say, there's a lot going on here, and there really aren't dry spots in the story.
Ms. Van Wormer has apparently used Sally before, and has another book after this one using the character. Despite that, I didn't feel lost at all. It's very easy to pick up any one of these books and dive right in without having read the others. Granted, this isn't a lightweight one-night reading type of book, but it's worth it from start to finish.
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