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Delia Pitts
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Small Town. Big Case.

Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and tiny when you want privacy. For Vandy Myrick, that’s both a blessing and a curse. Now that Vandy’s back in “Q-Town,” her services as her hometown’s only Black woman private investigator have earned her more celebrity—or notoriety—than she figured.

Keeping busy with work helps Vandy deal with the grief of losing her daughter, stitching the seams, cementing the gaps. The memories will always remain, and they come crashing back to the surface when her ex-husband, Phil Bolden, walks back into her life. Promising everything, returning home, restoring family. Until she answers her door to the news that Phil has been murdered. And Vandy decides Phil is now her client.

It’s hard to separate the Phil that Vandy knew from the one Queenstown did. She sees him—and their daughter—in Phil’s son, who attends a prestigious local high school. She sees the layers of a complicated marriage with his wife. She sees all of Phil’s various roles: parent, husband, businessman, philanthropist. But which role got him killed?

Praise for Trouble in Queenstown

"STARTS AT A SIMMER, but when Vandy's investigation gets going, it reaches a full boil."

-- The New York Times Book Review

 

"[Vandy Myrick] is a PERFECT FIT for her new career as a private eye."

-- The Washington Post

 

"The story flies. Pitts's prose strikes a sophisticated balance between ELEGANCE AND ENERGY."

-- Minneapolis Star Tribune

 

"DANGER, THRILLS, AND INTRIGUE meld in this tale."

-- Woman's World

 

"AN INDELIBLE LEAD and a richly rendered setting."

-- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

 

"DARKLY ATMOSPHERIC."

-- Kirkus Reviews

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