#deaddeadgirls

[meikoyim]

I love Le Guin, but The Farthest Shore is giving me a hard time. So switching gears for a bit. 雖然很愛勒瑰恩，但地海第三本進度有夠卡的。轉換一下。 #AnnieIsReading #Kindlegram #Bookstagram #NekesaAfia #DeadDeadGirls #HarlemRenaissanceMystery https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfdc9f2rm3A/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thebookshelfmonster]

🥂Jazz age murder mystery 🥂 🎺🔪🎺🔪🎺🔪🎺🔪🎺🔪🎺🔪 Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia is the first book in her Harlem Renaissance Mystery series featuring a young queer black woman as an amateur sleuth in 1920s New York. Louise Lloyd, a survivor of kidnapping in her teenage years, finds herself in the middle of a string of chilling serial murders with young black women as victims in 1920s Manhattan. One of the unique strengths of this book is how it interrogates the genre of the murder mystery even as it uses the tropes and genre conventions of the same. The figure of the private detective/sleuth in the history of mystery/detective literature has always occupied an uneasy position in relation to authority, particularly the police and by extension the state. Louise's position as a young queer black woman puts at her at a unique advantage in helping explore this relationship of tension and unease, while also making the stakes immeasurably higher for her than it would have been for a Miss Marple or Miss Fisher (who would have been her international contemporaries). Her need to figure out what is happening in her neighbourhood and save any more of her friends and neighbours from an obviously racially targeted spree of murders puts at her at odds with her community and her conscience for having to work in close proximity of a racist white police force that she deeply and justifiably mistrusts. While the pacing and plot is sometimes choppy and abrupt, and the main character's decision-making is at times inexplicable, Dead Dead Girls makes for a good period thriller overall. 4/5 🌟 and full review on #goodreads #deaddeadgirls #harlemrenaissancemystery #nekesaafia #jazzage #murdermystery #perioddrama #1920s #flapper #speakeasy #prohibition #harlemrenaissance #queerrepresentation #detectivefiction #serialkiller #mysterybooks #bookstagram #bookstagramusa #bookstagrammer #bookreview #bookreviewersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ7p1C0vKMD/?utm_medium=tumblr

[brian-c-anderson]

Looking forward to this! Reposted from @nekesaafia ✨6 WEEKS UNTIL DEAD DEAD GIRLS IS OUT✨ much like myself, Lou has no idea what she’s in for . . . . . . . . . . #deaddeadgirls #2021debuts #debutauthor #historicalfiction #mystery #jazzage #fiction #ownvoices https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5EkdorsBi/?igshid=knws05vg2lt3