He rediscovers the world of the Harlem Renaissance, a place of suffocating class strictures, seductive patrons, and aristocratic civil rights leaders. Why did Lilian take her life? Why did she marry a man she barely knew, giving him a claim to the family home? Why did she feel compelled to keep her marriage a secret? Burdened by a secret of his own, McKay dares to stay in Harlem to stave off the threat to his family home and answer questions about Lilian's death.
Years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister's suicide. It is 1926, the heart of the Roaring Twenties, and Harlem is the place to be. For more information, visit her online at or at Facebook. Her perfect Sunday morning includes a lengthy and lazy browse through The New York Times online. She enjoys Indian and Thai food for dining, romantic thrillers and detective stories for reading, movies about superheroes, and television programs about desperate housewives and true crime. On a more personal note, she's happily single, fluent in German, breathtakingly disorganized, and sporadically inspired to cook. She has also written for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., (RFE) in Munich, worked as a freelance book editor, and done cultural reporting and voice work for European publications. She has written for The Associated Press in Arkansas Washington, DC and New York. Persia has served on the Mystery Writers of American mentoring panel and as a member of the board for the New York Chapter of MWA's.
She won the Author of the Year Award by the Go On Girl Book Club.
She is also a contributor to the anthology MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS: THE BLUE RELIGION. Persia Walker is the author of three acclaimed historical novels, BLACK ORCHID BLUES, DARKNESS AND THE DEVIL BEHIND ME, and HARLEM REDUX.
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