Emmy Award winner Charlie McNally, investigative reporter for Boston's Channel 3 TV,and her producer, Franklin Parrish, are currently investigating a far reaching car scam.

At the same time problems are developing at Bexter School where Josh Gelsston is a professor. A few parents of Bexter's students are receiving threatening phone calls, one of which results in the death of a longtime member of the staff. In spite of Josh's feelings, Charlie undertakes to probe further into the matter.

If this isn't enough to occupy her time and mind, Charlie is confronted with a decision which will affect her future. Her news director, Kevin O'Bannon, is leaving to take a new position with the New York network news. He wants to take Charlie with him. Network news is her ultimate goal, but does she want to leave Boston and her life with Josh and his daughter Penny? Her decision isn't made any easier when she learns that her longtime friend and director, Franklin, is joining Kevin in New York.

Drive Time is the fourth in the Charlie McNally series. It has maintained the high quality of writing of the previous books and continued their pattern of intriguing plots. We continue to follow Charlie's private life with the recurring cast of characters.

It doesn't seem possible but each book in this series seems to get better than the previous one.

Hank, keep them coming!