Dead dead girls
- Author/Creator:
- Afia, Nekesa, author
- Publication/Creation:
- New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2021
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- First edition.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Dead dead girls / Nekesa Afia
- Series Titles:
- A Harlem Renaissance mystery
Afia, Nekesa. Harlem Renaissance mystery.
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction
Historical fiction - Subjects:
- African American women--Fiction
Murder--Investigation--Fiction
Harlem Renaissance--Fiction
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- "The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia. Harlem, 1926. Young black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She's succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie's Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem's hottest speakeasy. Louise's friends might say she's running from her past and the notoriety that still stalks her, but don't tell her that. When a girl turns up dead in front of the café, Louise is forced to confront something she's been trying to ignore-two other local black girls have been murdered over the past few weeks. After an altercation with a police officer gets her arrested, Louise is given an ultimatum: She can either help solve the case or wind up in a jail cell. Louise has no choice but to investigate and soon finds herself toe-to-toe with a murderous mastermind hell-bent on taking more lives, maybe even her own"--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 317 pages ; 21 cm.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937320148102486
- ISBN:
- 9780593199107
0593199103 - OCLC Number:
- 1226909703
- Barcode:
- 010003487520
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