Author Brad Parks Debuts Book in Newark
Former Maplewood resident releases third mystery novel and supports Newark schools fundraiser.
There's an attractive female newspaper editor, a lumbering summer college intern, and a wild black bear loose on the streets of Newark setting the stage for Brad Parks' new novel "The Girl Next Door." Parks, a past Maplewood resident and former Star-Ledger reporter, read an excerpt from his new novel Monday at Mix 27, a hip Newark eatery, at a book launch party hosted by Jaffe Communications, a Newark-based public relations, consulting and communications company. "It's great to be back in Newark," said Parks, who began writing the "Carter Ross" mystery series after taking a buyout from The Star-Ledger and moving to Virginia with his family. This is the third in the crime novel series and focuses on solving the mystery of a girl killed in a…
