Dark secrets. And an even darker death.
Vera Kincaid had everything to live for. The wife of a wealthy preacher man, she was smart, beautiful, and popular. But lovely wives often have dark secrets and Vera was no exception.
When Vera is found in a place she shouldn’t have been—and seen with a man she shouldn’t have been—then the threat is to more than her reputation.
Society reporter Lanie Price investigates the death of a woman she held dear and finds out that, for her friend Vera, forbidden love had deadly consequences.
Dear Sister Dead
Vera Kincaid had everything to live for. The wife of a wealthy preacher man, she was smart, beautiful, and popular. But lovely wives often have dark secrets. Vera was no exception.
Society reporter Lanie Price investigates the mysterious murder of a woman she held dear and finds out that, for Vera, forbidden love had deadly consequences.
Backdrop to Murder
On a dank night in September, Lanie is called to the scene of a grisly double murder. The victims: a popular photographer and a Cotton Club beauty. The suspect: the dead man's jealous wife. Found weeping over his body, her wails of grief and regret condemn her on the spot. The cops say the wife did it and an outraged
Goodfellowe House
Lanie Price covers the gritty underside of Harlem’s glamorous high life in the 1920s. A gutsy reporter with a golden heart, she's willing to ask the hard questions. She’ll go anywhere, talk to anyone, to get her story. So when Lanie revisits the unsolved mystery of a young woman's disappearance, she starts asking questions--the right questions, but of the wrong
Black Orchid Blues
Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the “Black Orchid,” a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. When hours pass without word from the kidnapper, puzzlement grows as to his motive. Then a gruesome package arrives at Price’s doorstep, and the questions change. Just what does this kidnapper want—and how many people is