The unsolved murder of a student doubling as a hooker to pay her university bills.

A corrupt development deal orchestrated by a slick dealmaker from out of town.

Crooked politicians who brutalize a diverse population in a city in rapid decline.

Welcome to Rilertown, the perfect setting for a journalist to launch his career. Jake Ketcher is the eager new reporter for the Rilertown Post-Gazette. He stumbles upon one story and then another that threatens the city and its inhabitants, its power structure, and Jake's own safety.

Rilertown gives an insider look at the newsrooms of the 1970s and 80s; gritty, imperfect battlegrounds populated with flawed idealists armed with licenses to probe, expose and explain in an era when newspapers were profitable, readable and fun to work for.

Jake's instincts lead him head first into the story of his career, but also places him between power and poverty in a city seemingly doomed to self-destruct.

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