"Borger perfectly captures tensions in newspaper city rooms, including lack of staff because of buyouts and layoffs, reporters' desire to tell stories in-depth while bosses have to answer to stockholders who want profits and the challenges of competing with the Internet.
"Whose Hand?" (Nodin Press, $16.95) includes vivid descriptions of snow-clad Minnesota landscapes (including a heart-stopping event on a frozen lake), a plot that keeps you guessing and colorful secondary characters, such as Skeeter's crime-reporting colleagues, Slick and Dick."
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