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Dennis Lehane and Jake Tapper pen new novels set in the 1970s

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The Mistake That Has Consequences

Jake Kapper: Lucy Martyr, your reporter character, becomes part of what I'll call a mistake that has consequences. After the Boston Marathon bombing, there were a lot of sleuths online and I saw very little of that ending up in mainstream media. But there was some very irresponsible stuff, pictures of people that were not related to the Boston Marathon bombings. These two individuals were just innocent residents of Massachusetts. And we see that all the time exploited by bad actors on social media.

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