child in that same year, she was black. the child in texas was white, and i watched how those cases were handled very differently so this inspired the case that jordan the character was following. i could never imagine exactly when this book was released you would go viral for repeating the words of someone we both admire grateful, grand eiffel. i thought to myself, we have to be kidding ourselves. i wrote a whole novel and you re going to act like you re surprised that this term a, exists and that we shouldn t all be concerned about it. so i have this character who is a character that i imagined i could or wished i could have been. jordan manning is speaking up in newsrooms i didn t speak up in. jordan manning is taking on a establishment that i did not because we know the consequences of that, right? you speak out, you ultimately suffer the consequence of being fired and so here jordan
manning, this character i created much bolder than i was and far less apologize get tick that i thought i needed to be. there is a passage she says when you say girl next door, who are you are you talking about? because the girl next door doesn t look the same. the girl next door looks like the neighborhood she lives in. and on friday, excuse me, monday on my talk show we have jillani s mother on my show to talk about how that felt to literally plead with the news media to follow her son s disappearance. and bold hosts and journalists like yourself who inspired jordan manning, my character, said this is 20121. we are not going to be silent as we were with the bradley sisters in chicago who have been missing for decades request with no answer for their family. amen, amen, amen.
jordan manning is a hero that we need right now. so are you, tamron hall. you know how much i admire you, my friend. i am so excited about this. i hope everybody gets into this. the series this is just the first one. thank you. congratulations. and coming up next, turn down all the lights and get ready for a very special, very spooky halloween take on the absolute worst, the absolute scariest is straight ahead. don t miss it. ad don t miss it. what do we want for dinner? burger. i want a sugar cookie. wait. i want a bucket of chicken. i want. it s the easiest because it s the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win. darling, i, i can t get enough of your love babe girl, i don t know, i don t know, i don t know why i can t get
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
publishing houses and they said no book exists with a black female protagonist that s a crime solver in a wide spectrum and when i heard this character does not exist in the literary world of thrillers, it was inspiring for me to keep going. and, you know, this is so personal for you. you tragically did lose your older sister to a crime of domestic violence. so you take very personally these stories of loss and you do such a brilliant job in interviewing victims on your show, the tamron hall show. talk about this issue of missing black girls and trying to get their stories out because that is what, you know, this incredible crime fighter jordan manning is trying to do. she is following this case but really, joy, she s inspired to something in 1997. i was in dallas and 1997, i covered the death of an 11-year-old child then i moved to chicago, another 11-year-old