Harlem Sunset
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Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · June 28, 2022
Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer!
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- Who it’s for
- A Harlem-set mystery pairs Renaissance-era nightlife with intimate stakes and sharp suspense.
- Genres
- Historical Mystery, Black Mystery, Black Historical Fiction
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, June 28, 2022
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Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! 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.
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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.
Harlem After Dark
A Harlem-set mystery pairs Renaissance-era nightlife with intimate stakes and sharp suspense.
Come here for
- 1920s Harlem nightlife and a murder investigation with personal stakes
Expect
- A determined sleuth fighting to clear the woman she loves
Where it sits
| Black Mystery | 62% |
|---|---|
| Historical Mystery | 60% |
| Black Historical Fiction | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women Detectives
- Historical Mystery
- Black Mystery
- Authors
- Nekesa Afia
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- June 28, 2022
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Women Detectives