Murder in the Newsroom — Robert Kanehl

Who killed Andrew Gates's father? Can he fill his father's shoes? These are the questions facing 14-year-old Andrew as he struggles to understand a world turned upside-down. With the death of his father, Andrew has to go from childhood to adulthood while fighting with the idea that maybe his father died in vain. Based true events in 1880, when three armies surrounded the capitol building of Maine in an effort to seize power. Andrew watches the tension grow until it kills his father, the editor of the Morning Sentinel. Forced to take on his father's responsibilities at the newspaper office, Andrew seeks the killer. Helping or hindering him in his quest are two of Maine's most dominating real-life characters of the 1800s, Senator James Blaine and General Joshua Chamberlain. Besides these men, Andrew has the help of the Dog Man, a mysterious homeless man who roams the streets, gathering information but speaking only in cryptic sentences. Can Andrew find the killer? Will he truly replace his father as chief reporter for the Morning Sentinel?