Distemper

  “You heard him,” I said. “You’re on the shelf for a while. What are you going to do with yourself?”

  “Good question. Any ideas?”

  “You want to get the hell out of here for a couple days? Go lie in the sun someplace?”

  “I burn.”

  “How about the Adirondacks? Hiking and stuff?”

  “Sounds pretty damn good.”

  “I gotta warn you, Cody. Homegirl doesn’t do tents. I want four walls and a bathroom.”

  “Deal. On one condition.”

  “Name it.”

  “The dogs are coming too.”

  “Great fun….Alex Bernier is a terrific character.”

  —JAMES PATTERSON, on Reliable Sources

  MAD DOGS AND

  JOURNALISTS…

  After a career-making murder case that proved personal bad news, sharp-witted journalist Alex Bernier swears she’s going to report stories, not make them. Then a serial killer declares hunting season in her eccentric upstate New York university town—and is only too happy to keep Alex, the reporter covering the case, personally in his twisted loop. To stop him, Alex must face off against an attractive police detective, a ruthless New York Times reporter, and a tech-happy student voyeur. But as she races through a maze of bewildering leads, she doesn’t know her rabidly clever subject is out to kill her story—permanently…

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  “In RELIABLE SOURCES, Beth Saulnier gives Gen X women

  a voice they can finally count on, in a whip-smart reporter

  named Alex Bernier, who’s tough and tender, and who

  will—when you’re not looking—turn your heart around.

  She’s bright air. She’s that fresh and good.”

  —PAUL CODY, author of So Far Gone

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