Kill the Messenger

Isaiah Justice, owner and publisher of a small-town newspaper called The Defender, is dead from cyanide poisoning. His death makes the front page of his newspaper and becomes the focus of an investigation by the paper's top reporters: Howard Justice, the Old Man's son, and Leeroy Hicks, who comes from humbler origins. Then The Defender's major stockholders receive a takeover bid from the Gemtrex Group, a large, shady corporation that had been trying to buy the Old Man out when he was murdered. Did Gemtrex have the Old Man killed? Howard and Leeroy must find out within forty-eight hours ...