Lyrics of a Blackbird

A Jazz Age Mystery

von Persia Walker

468 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What does it cost to survive inside a system designed to break you?

Old loves, festering hatreds and buried family secrets collide when a man presumed dead returns home to investigate a death no one wants questioned.

Years after disappearing while investigating a lynching, civil rights attorney David McKay resurfaces in New York. His sister is dead-a brutal suicide, they say. But David isn't convinced. Before long he discovers she married a man she barely knew, an ambitious attorney now firmly entrenched in the McKay family townhouse and determined to keep what he's gained.

The deeper David digs, the uglier the truth becomes. His search leads him through a world of power brokers, predatory benefactors and ruthless social gatekeepers. His search carries him from the wealthy homes of Harlem's elite to the crowded tenements of its embattled poor-and a heart-wrenching reunion with the woman he had to leave behind. Every answer exposes another lie. Every lie points toward murder. But David is hiding something of his own.People thought he was dead-murdered. Now they want to know where he's been, what he's been doing, what really happened during those years he vanished. How long before they unearth his bitter secret-the sin that shames him, the lie that could destroy him?

Then another body turns up.

Suspicion closes in. As the investigation spirals toward a murder trial, David finds himself trapped between the truth he's chasing and the truth he fears will be exposed.

A gripping murder mystery of revenge, betrayal and buried guilt, Lyrics of a Blackbird explores the devastating consequences of violence, deception and the lies people tell to survive. Perfect for fans of Stephen L. Carter, Attica Locke, Dennis Lehane.

(Originally titled Harlem Redux)

• Reihe: Blood Vintage Press
• ISBN: 9780979253867
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2020
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Laine Educational Media LLC