watch. my favorite thing about this book other than the fact you wrote it and it s your first novel but this piece down here, i don t know if you guys can see, let me show you the marketing backseat you get if you know tamron hall, the first jordan manning novel which tells me that this is going to be a character is going to live with us for a long time. tell me about jordan manning. i hope she does live with us for a very long time. honestly, joy, i was the kid with the nancy drew box set under my bed and well before the pandemic you had it, too. i know. i had it, too. i had the box set under my bet. i never imagined i would write a novel, certainly not a series but there was so much i felt jordan manning the character could bring. i sold this series before the pandemic, met with huge push
call one eight hundred, eight million tens of thousands of black girls and women go missing in the u.s. every year but you probably don t know that because their stories rationally get national attention. the tragic case of gabby petito attracted nationwide coverage and highlighted the fact that people that don t look like her don t receive the same attention when they go missing. we ve tried to shine a light on the missing people of color. tamron hall has written a brand-new crime novel called as the wicked watched and touches on that very topic, the main character a black woman journalist investigates the disappearance of two black girls in chicago and tamron hall joins me now. this is the book as the wicked