Bloodline — Gerry Boyle

"THE DIALOGUE HUMS AND CRACKLES...Low-profile free-lance reporter Jack McMorrow sticks his head above the tree line long enough to contract for an article on kids having kids, then homes in on one particular high-school kid: Missy Hewett, a success story of sorts who puts her baby up for adoption and left Prosperity, Maine, to enter a nursing program in Portland six months ago. Trouble is, determined Missy's been having second thoughts about the adoption, and the day after she phones Jack with her reservations, she's found dead ..."--Kirkus Reviews