Harlem Redux by Persia Walker

To begin with, Lilian had married a somewhat shady lawyer named Jameson Sweet-who inherited the family home and most of the fortune on Lilian’s death. McKay learned of it only after the fact, and when he finally resurfaced and came home, he discovered that there was an awful lot that had happened in his absence. While he was gone, his sister Lilian killed herself under mysterious circumstances. Much of his work was in the South, and a lot of it was so dangerous that McKay actually had to go underground for three years to escape lynching.

The son a of prosperous Harlem realtor, he went to law school at Howard after seeing action in France during WWI and quickly set himself up as a civil-rights attorney. A debut novel, set in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, about a young lawyer’s quest to uncover the truth behind his sister’s death.ĭavid McKay wasn’t cut out to be a detective.