Book Review: ‘A Lethal Lady: A Novel’ By Nekesa Afia

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The book is in stores on Tuesday, July 30th from Berkley. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3LqQzXC

It’s 1928, and Louise Lloyd has been in Paris now for some time, having moved from Harlem. She works as parfumerie by day, and likes to go out dancing and drinking at night. Things turn upside down for her when Lisa Wright approaches her with a letter from one of Louise’s friends, asking for help in finding her missing artist daughter, Iris. Louise agrees to help look for her, and it throws her into a secret group of artists, of whom Iris was part of. She finds her alive, and then Iris is found dead of an apparent suicide. Fearing that one of the women in the secret group is responsible, she tries to learn as much as she can about each of them, and their secrets and finally brings them together to find out once and for all who is the murderer. This is the first time reading one of these novels, the third overall in the series, and Louise is a well-written character that want to follow along with. The story is fun, looking at the nightlife of Paris at the time. The mystery is average, but Louise is such a fun character, that you can overlook that.