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Award-winning investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan currently is on the air at Boston's NBC affiliate, where she's broken big stories for the past twenty-two years. Along with her twenty-four Emmys, Hank has won dozens of other regional, national and international honors for her hard-hitting investigations, including Edward R. Murrow Awards for reporting and writing, the top award from the National Association of Science Writers and the prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors Award.

Her first encounter with publishing came in 1969 when she and her best friend got summer jobs as proofreaders and wound up reading the entire Indiana Code of Laws out loud. Including punctuation.

Since then, she's been a radio reporter, a legislative aide in the United States Senate and, in a two-year stint in Rolling Stone magazine's Washington bureau, worked on the political column "Capitol Chatter" and organized presidential campaign coverage for Hunter S. Thompson.

She began her TV career in 1975, anchoring and reporting the news for TV stations in Indianapolis and then Atlanta. She's battled her way through hurricanes, floods and blizzards, wired herself with hidden cameras, chased criminals and confronted corrupt politicians, as well as covered national political conventions, the NBA playoffs and the Super Bowl and interviewed newsmakers from Prince Charles to President Jimmy Carter to Warren Beatty to Muhammad Ali.

Things most people don't know? As a result of a summer job at Dairy Queen, Hank can make an ice-cream cone with a curl on the top. She was vice president of the Midwest chapter of the National Beatles Fan Club, and figuredshewould one day marry George. Or Paul. Or John. When she was ten, her career ambition was to be Nancy Drew.

Phillippi Ryan grew up in the Indianapolis area, attended Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, and studied abroad at the International School in Hamburg, Germany.

She's on the Board of Directors of New England Sisters in Crime, and is vice president of the board of the Lyric Stage of Boston, a professional theater company. She is the founder of the Lyric's First Curtain program, which she created to provide the full theater experience for underprivileged students. Through her fund-raising and promotional efforts, First Curtain has already provided thousands of free tickets and theater-education scholarships.

Today she lives in the Boston area with her husband, a nationally renowned civil rights and criminal defense attorney.

Hank would love to hear from readers! Suggestions? Advice? Questions?

Veteran TV reporter Charlotte McNally fights for justice, journalism—and the battle against on-air aging. The good news: she's got explosive evidence to free an innocent woman from prison. The bad news: that makes Charlotte—and someone she loves—the real killer's next target.

Charlotte knows she has what it takes to get the story. Unfortunately, the more Charlotte snoops around, the more people turn up dead.