Harlem Sunset
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A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home...
Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talking. The next morning, Rosa Maria wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the previous night. Nora is lying dead in the middle of the dance floor.
Louise knows Rosa Maria couldn’t have killed Nora, but the police have a hard time believing that no one can remember anything at all about what happened. When Louise and Rosa Maria return to their apartment after being questioned by the police, they find the word GUILTY written across the living room wall in paint that looks a lot like blood. Someone has gone to great lengths to frame and terrify Rosa Maria, and Louise will stop at nothing to clear the woman she loves.
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Nekesa Afia. (2022). Harlem Sunset. Penguin Publishing Group.
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MLA Citation (style guide)Nekesa Afia. Harlem Sunset. Penguin Publishing Group, 2022.
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A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home...
Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talking. The next morning, Rosa Maria wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the previous night. Nora is lying dead in the middle of the dance floor.
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There's no rest for Harlem's Hero as another killer disrupts the high times of the Harlem Renaissance. Louise Lloyd is slow to recover after the trauma and notoriety stemming from a life-changing experience a year ago, when she shot a serial killer who prowled Harlem speak-easies and preyed on Black girls in Dead Dead Girls (2021). Now, in 1927, Louise settles back into the nightlife of the Harlem Renaissance. With her lover, Rosa Maria, at her side, she drinks and dances every evening at the Dove, a hot new club opened by Rosa Maria's twin brother, Rafael. But trouble seems to follow Harlem's Hero like a shadow. One morning, Louise wakes up at the Dove with little memory of the night before. Nearby are the sleeping Rosa Maria and Rafael and the corpse of Nora Davies, a young woman who reintroduced herself to Louise at the club only hours ago after they'd met briefly a decade before. Later, Louise finds the door of her apartment ajar, the word "GUILTY" written on one wall in red paint. Feeling compelled to find the killer, she turns reluctant sleuth again. Louise's investigation places her in mortal danger, strains her relationship with Rosa Maria, and ultimately becomes a journey of self-discovery. Afia's second Harlem Renaissance mystery continues the personal stories of her compelling cast and deepens her atmospheric depiction of the Jazz Age in Harlem. A vivid crime story and an engrossing depiction of an era.COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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In this second Harlem Renaissance Mystery (following Dead Dead Girls, 2021), Louise "Lovie" Lloyd is still coming to grips with her kidnapping, her sister Celia's death, and the killing of the man responsible for it all. It is now 1927. Lovie is turning 27 and has found the perfect gig, managing a hot new club called the Dove, owned by her friend Rafael Moreno. Louise is in a romantic relationship with Rafael's sister, Rosa Maria. On the morning after Lovie's birthday celebration, a woman is lying dead in the middle of the Dove's dance floor. None of the party has any memory of the previous night. The police point the finger at Rosa Maria. At once brazen and riddled with self-doubt, Lovie, determined to clear Rosa Maria and solve the crime, comes under attack. Her apartment is vandalized, she's almost run over, and she receives scandalous photographs of herself, which are published in a newspaper. She triumphs and makes a decision that will change the course of her life. Lovie's fans will follow wherever she goes.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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