This is absolutely one of the best mysteries you can read. The main character is a news researcher at Midwest Focus Television in Chicago. Her boyfriend is with the competition. They break up but he still wants her information about a hot scoop she's working on. Her private hearts desire is to find her biological birth parents. As she attempts to work it into her free time, it continues to evade her. She's on a very hot story about a young Polish immigrant woman who's pregnant by a Catholic priest. The priest has now fled internationally and shortly after the immigrant woman is found murdered. To her dismay her boss decides to abruptly reassign her to a less important hair story, and gives the now hotter murder story to the station owner's nephew (including all her notes and work). However; the murdered woman had worked at a hair salon so this reporter secretly continues to investigate starting at that location. She quickly discovers a priest who brings Polish girls to Chicago and entrusts the girls to a woman who forces them into a prostitution ring enforced by a nasty body guard. The researcher finds a girl at the salon who has becomes her most faithful help, but also continues to sabotage her work due to gratitude and adoration of the priest who brought her to the states. The book is exciting and fun. It is a must read. In Hyzy’s mystery novel, Chicago TV news researcher Alex St. James suffers the loss of her boyfriend, loses a lead on her biological parents, and is then taken off the biggest story of her career. As if that isn’t enough, her story subject is found floating in the river. Despite everything, Alex sets off to find the facts behind the deceased’s death and before long is enmeshed with another murder. Risking her job and her life, Alex goes undercover only to find that surviving the work politics and exposing lethal corruption can’t even begin to be compared to keeping a killer from making her his next victim.An excellent addition to the An Alex St. James Mystery series.
What do You think about Deadly Blessings (2005)?
not what i thought it would be. started out a little slow, but it picked up. good story.
—Sam
This was a good look at the possible atrocities that immigrants can see...
—angiegyl
The ending was not at all what I had predicted. It was a good summer read.
—Sweety
