Welcome to Hank Phillippi Ryan's Author Page



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 22 years. Along with her 24 EMMYs, Hank has won dozens of other regional, national and international honors for her hard-hitting investigations.
 
Hank's first mystery, PRIME TIME, introduces forty-something investigative reporter Charlie (Charlotte) McNally.  Charlie's smart, successful and devoted to Italian clothing designers--but she's worried her TV news director is about to replace her with a younger model.

On the hunt for a story that will save her job, Charlie suspects some of that annoying Spam clogging her computer is more than cyber junk mail. She discovers it actually carries big-money secret messages to the big-shot insiders who know how to decode it. Problem is, the last outsider who deciphered the system now resides in the local morgue. So this could be the biggest story of Charlie's already successful television career--or the one that may end her life.

Charlie's also facing another dilemma: what happens when a top-notch TV reporter is married to her job--but the camera doesn't love her anymore?

FACE TIME, the second Charlie McNally mystery, will be published in October 2007.

Hank'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 and her husband, a criminal defense and civil rights attorney, live just outside Boston.