The Lenox Avenue Lie
A twisty, atmospheric 1940s Harlem murder mystery about an anonymous letter, a missing sister, hidden motives, corruption, and a past that refuses to stay deadBy Eva Monroe
Length8h 41m
About this audiobook
In 1940s Harlem, a lie can keep you alive. Or get you killed on the church steps.
Dahlia Wainwright runs her dead mother's beauty salon on Lenox Avenue.
She rents the back room to a man who runs numbers.
She keeps her head down, her ledger clean, and her sister's secrets closer than her own.
Then her sister Vera misses her call at the Cotton Club.
And her apartment door stands open a crack, with nothing behind it but the drip of a faucet and a silence that has teeth.
The same week, a runner named Dell Monroe bleeds out on the church steps two blocks over.
Eight hundred dollars gone. A knife wound below his ribs.
Nobody saw the man who did it.
Nobody wants to.
But Dahlia has a letter she was never meant to read.
A locket that doesn't belong to anyone living.
And a name that keeps surfacing where it shouldn't.
The more she pulls the thread, the more the avenue's powerful men want her to stop.
"You go asking the wrong questions on this street," a voice warns her, "and you'll be the next thing they fish out of the Hudson."
A councilman with secrets.
A king who owns the block.
A red herring that frays in her hands.
Everyone on Lenox Avenue is wearing a face that isn't theirs.
Dahlia learned young that the truth is a luxury people like her can't always afford.
But Vera is gone, the dead are piling up, and the lie is closing in on the only family she has left.
To find her sister and clear the dead, she has to walk straight into the lie this whole neighborhood is built on.
And expose the one truth powerful enough to bury her with it.
The Lenox Avenue Lie is a twisty, atmospheric 1940s Harlem murder mystery about an anonymous letter, a missing sister, hidden motives, corruption, and a past that refuses to stay dead.
Perfect for readers who love historical crime fiction, amateur-sleuth mysteries, noir atmosphere, twisty whodunits, and stories in the tradition of Walter Mosley. A standalone mystery with a satisfying, hard-edged reveal.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Historical Fiction
Length8 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
16Chapter 14 - The Trap Springs
2Prologue
17Chapter 15 - The Locket’s Secret
3Chapter 1 - The Drip That Won’t Stop
18Chapter 16 - The Seamstress
4Chapter 2 - Counting the Missing
19Chapter 17 - Arrested Development
5Chapter 3 - The Price of a Life
20Chapter 18 - The Red Herring Frays
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6Chapter 4 - His Majesty’s Court
21Chapter 19 - The Club Ebony Echo
7Chapter 5 - Dancing with Devils
22Chapter 20 - The Hudson’s Bumper
8Chapter 6 - The Second Corpse
23Chapter 21 - The Envelope Opened
9Chapter 7 - Whose Blood?
24Chapter 22 - The Dress Fits
10Chapter 8 - The Photograph
25Chapter 23 - The False King
11Chapter 9 - The Councilman’s Secrets
26Chapter 24 - The Thread Unraveled
12Chapter 10 - Witness
27Chapter 25 - The Lie Exposed
13Chapter 11 - The Family Man
28Chapter 26 - The Settlement
14Chapter 12 - The Scalding Truth
29Epilogue
15Chapter 13 - The Ledger and the Locket
30About the Author
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