Veronika Layne Gets the Scoop, Julia Park Tracey
Veronika Layne Gets the Scoop, Julia Park Tracey
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Veronika Layne Gets the Scoop

Author: Julia Park Tracey

Series: Hot Off the Press

Narrator: Marnye Young

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/18/2025

Synopsis

Veronika Layne is a sassy, tattooed forty-something (okay, forty-nine) newspaper reporter who never saw herself working for a big corporation. When her small town weekly paper is swallowed up by Singh Media Group, that's exactly what happens. Further complicating her job, a sexy new reporter has been hired from the competing paper, and while he's terribly attractive, he remains the competition. But the fantasies won't stop and her best friend and fellow reporter Aiden is even starting to notice. Stuck writing fluff pieces that might as well be ads, Veronika can't resist digging into rumors that a local real estate developer is destroying Native American burial grounds. Warned away at every turn by her editor, who is not a supporter of investigative journalism nor a fan of social justice pieces, Veronika worries that her story will never see the light of day. And who knows what trouble these fantasies of a midlife romance with her competitor will cause her—especially with Aiden? This is the first in the three-book Hot off the Press series.

About Julia Park Tracey

Author Julia Park Tracey's ancestors and their stories have given her a trail to follow from New York and New England to the deep south and the Pacific Coast. Park Tracey has three counties in California who claim her for their own: Sonoma County where she was raised; Alameda County where she was a columnist, journalist, and Poet Laureate; and Nevada County where she currently resides. She is the author or editor of six books, including two collected diaries of her aunt, a teen flapper in the Roaring Twenties. She has written for Redbook, HuffPost, The Sun, Salon, and Babble. She is also a partner and the executive editor at Sibylline Books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on November 22, 2015

3.5 stars Fun read. I am looking forward to seeing how Veronika develops in future novels.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on February 08, 2016

This was such a good read. Much of the book takes place in a small town newsroom -- where I've spent the better part of 20 years and it was so accurate (funny, frustrating, rewarding, annoying -- sometimes all at once) I had to wonder if author Julia Park Tracey had been standing behind me taking no......more

Goodreads review by Billie on October 27, 2014

A sharp tongue and a sharp wit make Veronika a character you'll fall in love with. Loved the fun combo of romance and suspense. Hope we don't have to wait too long for Book 2!......more

Goodreads review by Maryellen on October 24, 2014

So well written, keeps you involved to the last page! Veronika is dedicated to the story and her town. She may be a tatted up and pierced young thing, but you recognize all the great gum-shoe reporters of the 30's who never quit until they uncovered the truth. Park Tracey is an engaging writer who k......more

Goodreads review by Regas on October 30, 2014

From the opening paragraph this book kept me wanting more. It's a fun romp through a small town and the social politics that entails. As a stringer photographer in my early years I could relate to the characters and the story. If you like light-hearted, fun romantic romps this is a book you will def......more

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