num_pages: 320
description: Harlem 1926. Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead.Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. Shes succeeding too. She spends her days working at Maggies Caf and her nights at the Zodiac Harlems hottest speakeasy. Louises friends especially her girlfriend Rosa Maria Moreno might say shes running from her past and the notoriety that still stalks her but dont tell her that.When a girl turns up dead in front of the caf Louise is forced to confront something shes been trying to ignoretwo other local Black girls have been murdered in the past few weeks. After an altercation with a police officer gets her arrested Louise is given an ultimatum: She can either help solve the case or wind up in a jail cell. Louise has no choice but to investigate and soon finds herself toe-to-toe with a murderous mastermind hell-bent on taking more lives maybe even her own....
language: English
title: Dead Dead Girls
publisher: Berkley