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      MURDER AT THE WHAM BAM CLUB

Nola Ann Jackson smells trouble when Jim Richardson, a handsome Negro rights activist, asks her to find a teenaged runaway from the Phyllis Wheatley Institute For Colored Girls. Wheatley House is the only shelter in Southern Illinois that accepts Negroes.  Even the smallest hint of scandal will give the State’s Ku Klux Klan-dominated Welfare Board an excuse to close the institution. To find the missing girl and save Wheatley House, Nola must use her psychic powers to probe the dark underbelly of her lawless river town, a place where corrupt politicians, gangsters and the Ku Klux Klan make everyday life a challenge for African-Americans. 
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“Murder at the Wham Bam Club is a powerful, impressive, and entertaining debut with well-developed, diverse, and unforgettable characters.  If you only read a few books a year, make this one of them.”
Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
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“Murder at the Wham Bam Club offers readers a unique peek at small-town Black life during the 1920s in a mid-western accent--with mysticism and spells thrown in for an intriguing twist.”      
Valerie Wilson Wesley, New York Times bestselling author
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