Born Harriet Ann Sablosky,[1] Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, the NBC-affiliate station for Boston, Massachusetts.[2] She is also an author of mystery novels.[3]
Ryan is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. She attended Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio and also studied abroad at the International School in Hamburg, Germany.[4] Ryan joined WHDH-TV in 1983 as a general assignment reporter. In 1989, she was named principal reporter for the station's investigative unit.[4] Ryan has won 26 Emmy Awards and 12 Edward R. Murrow Awards for her investigative and consumer reporting.[2]
Her first published novel, Prime Time won the Agatha Award for best new mystery of 2007.[5] Her follow-up mystery, Face Time, was published in 2008 (and re-issued in 2009) and was a Book Sense Notable Book. Both books feature Boston investigative reporter Charlotte "Charlie" McNally and are published by MIRA Books.[3]
AIR TIME (MIRA/Sept 2009), the third in the series, is an Agatha Award nominee for Best Mystery of 2009, as well as an Anthony Award nominee for Best Paperback Mystery of 2009. The fourth in the series, DRIVE TIME (MIRA/Feb 2010), received a starred review from Library Journal, saying it "places Ryan in the same league as Lisa Scottoline."
Ryan's short story "On the House" (QUARRY, 2009) won the Agatha Award, Anthony Award and Macavity Award for Best Short Story of 2009. Her essay "Masquerade" appears in the ITW anthology "Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads."
Ryan lives with her husband in suburban Boston.[2]
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