Mystery in Harare: Priscilla's Journey into Southern Africa
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Book #2 in The Priscilla Trilogy begins as the bride pauses for an instant before walking down the aisle to marry a man she likes but does not love; and in that hesitant moment a shot rings out, and then another. The groom falls. Blood stains the sanctuary.
Priscilla J. "PJ" Austin--a magnetic, up-and-coming, baby boomer--catches a glimpse of the shooter before everything blacks out for the bride.
Set in the mid1980s, "Mystery in Harare" is a stylish, fast-paced, character-driven thriller that unravels the secrets behind this carnage at a Midwestern American black church.
Priscilla's fortitude is sorely tried as she awakens, sometime later--sedated and confused, on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe--to face the adventure of her life. She is "stashed" away, more than once, down deep into the savannas and the wilds of southern Africa--Zimbabwe and apartheid-ruled South Africa--where she falls prey to the vicious South African Nationalist Movement's Patrol Guard.
Along the way, there is mayhem, murder, mistaken identities, and a barbed reunion with Carlton Elliott Bernhardt, a swarthy, intrepid special operative, who may be her one true love.
M. J. Simms-Maddox
M. J. Simms-Maddox, PhD, is an independent (“indie”) author and the creator of the Priscilla Series. The South Carolina native grew up in the Snowbelt of western New York and currently resides in North Carolina. She earned her doctorate in political science from the Ohio State University, has served as a legislative aide in the Ohio Senate, operated a PR firm, and taught political science for over thirty years, and she travels extensively—all of which plays prominently in the Priscilla Series. The author found her passion for writing fiction somewhat late in her life and has been writing mostly mysteries and thrillers since 1999. She is affiliated with the African Literature Association, the Chanticleer Authors’ Conference, the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and the Women’s National Book Association. Apart from writing novels about professional women with agency, she enjoys all-things-books, traveling, and working in her yard.
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