After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from
Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also
"inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old
people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week, but
never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline,
who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast iron
stomach to partake of her culinary disasters. And with a group like this
you should never ask, “What else can go wrong?”
A lot! Sloane
begins to receive cyber threats. While Sloane uses her computer forensic
skills to uncover the source of the threats, it is discovered someone
is out to kill her. Can her life get more crazy?
I have been a lover of mysteries and all things mysterious since I was a child. I cut my teeth on Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon. But as I got older I started to wonder if there were any mysteries that featured or were written by African-Americans like me. I knew about a few characters brought to life by television and the movies. But I knew there had to be more than just Shaft, Christie Love, and Virgil Tibbs.
Then, in the early 1990s, on my regular trip to the library, I saw it. Sitting proudly on the new books table was Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely.
I devoured that book and have since discovered many others. This site is in response to them.
As well as being an avid mystery reader, I'm also the author of the Kendra Clayton mystery series. Visit me at www.AngelaHenry.com.
