Three full-length novels • Also sold separately
Book 1: GOODFELLOWE HOUSE
“Lanie Price is not just Easy Rollins in a dress.” —Alan Symonette, Philadelphia
Lanie Price covers the gritty underside of Harlem’s glamorous high life. 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 kind of questions but of the wrong kind of people, and it could get her killed. Come along as Lanie adds sizzle to this cold, cold case.
Book 2: BLACK ORCHID BLUES
"Put a Bessie Smith platter on the Victrola, and go with the flow on this mystery/romance/history mix. You just might like it." --Library Journal
"Smart and sophisticated. Walker hits all the right notes in this dark blues riff."
--Reed Farrel Coleman, three-time Shamus Award-winning author of INNOCENT MONSTER
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 bloody 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?
Book 3: 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 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?
Genre: Historical Mystery
Book 1: GOODFELLOWE HOUSE
“Lanie Price is not just Easy Rollins in a dress.” —Alan Symonette, Philadelphia
Lanie Price covers the gritty underside of Harlem’s glamorous high life. 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 kind of questions but of the wrong kind of people, and it could get her killed. Come along as Lanie adds sizzle to this cold, cold case.
Book 2: BLACK ORCHID BLUES
"Put a Bessie Smith platter on the Victrola, and go with the flow on this mystery/romance/history mix. You just might like it." --Library Journal
"Smart and sophisticated. Walker hits all the right notes in this dark blues riff."
--Reed Farrel Coleman, three-time Shamus Award-winning author of INNOCENT MONSTER
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 bloody 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?
Book 3: 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 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?
Genre: Historical Mystery
Used availability for Persia Walker's Lanie Price Books 1-3