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PLEASE NOTE:
Updated on: Friday, the 14th of November 2025
This story was originally published under the title The Candidate. It has now been fully revised, expanded, and republished as The Reporter at the Gate. Because this version no longer reflects the final published text, I’ve removed the old sample chapters.
You can now read the prologue of the second edition on my blog which will be published on Sunday the 16th of November 2025.
I hope you enjoy the newly updated second edition of The Reporter at the Lake.
Happy reading, everybody!
Amelia xx
A. D. Hay (Amelia)
Amateur Sleuth Mystery Author
Amelia writes amateur sleuth mysteries under the pen name A.D. Hay. She is the author of The Reporter at the Gate, The Locked Room, The Lawn, Suspicion, and Duplicity. When not absorbed in a gripping page-turner or writing my James Lalonde series, Amelia loves to travel around Europe, drink tea and rosé, and eat pizza. She is also obsessed with journalism, art history, and is a closet religious thriller fan. She is also the host of The Authorpreneur Podcast and the Mystery Novel Nerd Podcast. Right now, she is writing a cozy mystery novella, A Will to Murder and editing The Woman on the Lake.
