For 1920s society reporter Lanie Price, the photographer found shot through the eye in the back of his studio isn’t just another story. It’s personal.
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 regret condemn her on the spot. The cops say the wife did it and an outraged community believes it.
Will Lanie be able to stop an innocent woman from getting a date with the electric chair—or is this innocent woman not so innocent after all?
Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the “Black Orchid,” a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past.
Hours pass without word from the kidnapper. Fear and puzzlement grow as to his motive. Then a gruesome package lands on Lanie’s doorstep, and the questions change. Just what does this kidnapper want—and how many people is he willing to kill in order to get it?
Evil hides behind the genteel façades of affluent Strivers’ Row and stalks the ballroom of one of Harlem’s most famous gay parties. Black Orchid Blues explores the depths of human depravity and the desperation of its victims.
Explore the gritty underside of the glamorous Harlem Renaissance.
Lanie Price is a tough-talking 1920s reporter with a bruised and battle-scarred but loving heart. She’s willing to go anywhere, talk to anyone, to get her story.
When a grieving woman asks Lanie to dedicate her column to the long-unsolved mystery of her sister’s disappearance, Lanie can’t say no. She starts asking questions–the hard kind, the right kind, but of the wrong kind of people. And it could get her killed.
Join Lanie as she adds sizzle to this cold, cold case.
Old loves, festering hatreds, and buried family secrets: A man returns from the dead in this sweeping tale of Jazz Age New York.
Attorney David McKay disappeared years ago while investigating a lynching down South. Now, he’s back, very much alive and very determined to unearth the truth about his sister’s brutal death.
His search rips back the curtain on the glittering world of the Harlem Renaissance, revealing a world of lies, hypocrisy, and tragic betrayal.