#Blogtour #The Trade Off – Sandie Jones @realsandiejones @sandiejones_author @panmacmillan

About the book

Would you print a lie across a front page?

For Stella, Deputy Editor of The Globe, the choice has always been clear. There is no stone she will leave unturned in her pursuit of the best story. It’s what she’s built her reputation on.

For Jess, The Globe’s rookie reporter, the story stops when the truth does. But she knows that the dirty tricks of the tabloids will be hard to overturn.

And when the subject of the story Jess is working on pays the ultimate price, she suspects that the paper may have had more to do with it than they’re letting on . . .

What price would you pay to uncover the truth if someone is prepared to kill to bury it?

My thoughts

Thank you to Chloe at Panmacmillan for my copy of the book and my invitation to the blog tour.

Jess is a journalist and she has just accepted a job at The Globe Newspaper. Max is her boss and Stella is the Deputy Editor. Stella has a reputation as someone who will stop at nothing to get her story.

Max tells Jess that he wants her on the staff of The Globe because she has morals and he wants to clean the paper up.

She is shocked when she meets Stella and she quickly finds out she will need to toughen up if she is going to last at the newspaper. It is not long before she is brought into the Stella way of working and it chills her to the bone what she has been involved in.

As the story progresses it becomes apparent that Stella and Max have been involved with some dark exposes before and some of the people involved are not going to forget their involvement.

This is such a fast paced and engrossing read, tabloid journalism is something that has always fascinated me, particularly how the reporters will do anything to get a scoop regardless of the impact of the person or persons involved. The characters were interesting and evoked strong feelings in me. Stella and Max in particular I found very difficult to like. This is a story of retribution, power and ambition at any cost.

However there are many twists and turns this book and things are not always how they appear which kept me engrossed to its conclusion which in itself is clever and gripping.

A really entertaining read!