As the wicked watch
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After moving from Texas to Chicago, crime reporter Jordan Manning becomes frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women and does everything she can to give the story the attention it desperately requires.

When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, shes one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network. Jordan is smart and aggressive, with unabashed star-power, and often the only woman of color in the newsroom. Her signature? Arriving first on the scenein impractical designer stilettos. Armed with a masters degree in forensic science and impeccable instincts, Jordan has been able to balance her dueling motivations: breaking every big storyand giving a voice to the voiceless. From her time in Texas, shes covered the vilest of human behaviors but nothing has prepared her for Chicago. Jordan is that rare breed of a journalist who can navigate a crime scene as well as she can a newsroomoften noticing what others tend to miss. Again and again, she is called to cover the murders of Black women, many of them sexually assaulted, most brutalized, and all of them quickly forgotten. All until Masey Jamesthe story that Jordan just cant shake, despite all efforts. A 15-year-old girl whose body was found in an abandoned lot, Masey has come to represent for Jordan all of the frustration and anger that her job often forces her to repress. Putting the rest of her work and her fraying personal life aside, Jordan does everything she can to give the story the coverage it desperately requires, and that a missing Black child would so rarely get. Theres a serial killer on the loose, Jordan believes, and hes hiding in plain sight.