Deadly News by Jody Holford

Molly wants to spruce up the paper with better reporting and more info people will read.  Most of her employees don't say much, but Vernon isn't going along with it and he says so...

Lyrical Underground and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published October 30th.

Molly forces him to go visit one of the town's prominent citizens to get a personal touch in the story.  He takes a day off.  The next day he doesn't show up.  She goes to check on him and finds him dead...

She worries that her assignment got him killed, so she starts snooping at the murder.  Her boyfriend starts to worry about her, the cops tell her to stop but she's still digging.  Even when his son confesses to killing him, she doesn't believe it.

She finds the right person but inviting them to her home might not have been the smartest thing...