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The Thirteenth Rose

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For his Valentine's night call-in show, host Charlie D plans to offer his listeners two hours on the topic of "satisfaction."

Charlie's in-studio guest is twenty-five-year-old Misty de Vol Burgh, formerly the highest-paid escort in the city but now happily married to eighty-three-year-old billionaire Henry Burgh. It's all good fun until Charlie receives a chilling message: "It's take-out-the-garbage night. Time to kill all the hookers and wash the streets with blood." When Charlie is directed to a website that allows viewers to watch the murder of a prostitute in real time and promises that another killing will be broadcast live within the hour, the hunt is on. But The World According to Charlie D. has an audience of over a million listeners. The murderer could be anyone, anywhere. Charlie and his team have less than two hours to find and stop the killer.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for older teen readers and adults who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read!

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    • Booklist

      March 15, 2013
      Late night radio host Charlie D returns (One Fine Day You're Gonna Die, 2010), this time to stop a Valentine killing spree. Charlie's guest on Valentine's Day is Misty, the 25-year-old ex-escort and pregnant wife of CVOX's 83-year-old owner. After receiving a weblink to grisly footage of a prostitute being murdered by a masked man who promises another execution in exactly one hour, Charlie and his producer scramble to summon Kevin O'Hanlon, the station's raving, right-wing talk host, whose ranting about cleansing the streets of filth has prompted the formation of O'Hanlon's Warriors, a gang bent on achieving its guru's goal. With sex workers placed squarely on the side of the angels, Bowen steers the narrative away from its expected course and focuses on the good that could come out of regulated sex work. Charlie D continues to be the compassionate, complex, beating heart of Bowen's crisply paced series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)

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  • OverDrive Read
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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:690
  • Text Difficulty:3

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