Nekesa Afia: Dead dead girls, 9780593199107, Berkley Crime

Sometimes it has to be an entertaining mystery, and i found just that in Nekesa Afia'S DEAD DEAD GIRL. Really enjoyed this unusual setting and developed a soft spot for Louise,  the spirited chief protagonist. 

Set in the Harlem Renaissance featuring a young black lesbian heroine, Louise Lloyd spends her days working at a cafe and nights boozing with her lover Rosa Maria and her twin brother Raffael at the Zodiac club. Not much escapes her there but when the girls she knows from the club end up being brutally murdered and dumped in front of the cafe where she works, she is scared and clueless. After a scuffle with the police, they force her to use her Harlem connections working with the somewhat shady  detective Gilbert or to get arrested herself. A glimps of what it might have been living in the 1920ties Harlem as a young woman fending for herself and being ousted by a preacher father with a mystery thrown in helped me to escape during a time when the world seemed to fall apart.