![]() ![]() His current wife Carlotta Lee Curtis is only 22 and rumored to fuck anything in britches. The case throws Hayle into the domestic affairs of her ex, who now has five sons that she knows about, three of which are alive in the Newark area. DeWayne doesn't believe it to be a coincidence and asks her to look into it. This comes a year to the day after another son he never told Tamara about was shot in Salem, Virginia. DeWayne notifies her that Terrence, one of his other sons, has been found dead. He drives a silver Lexus and makes some of his money as a club owner and silent partner in a few local businesses. She receives a call from her ex-husband DeWayne Curtis, Jamal's father and a good-looking smooth-talker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tamara Hayle is in her thirties, an ex-cop raising her fourteen-year-old son Jamal and operating a private detective agency upstairs from a beauty parlor. Wilson sets the story in Newark, which sets the book apart even more, but neglects putting her detective in enough jeopardy to be fully satisfying. Published in 1994, I found the first half of the book to be wonderful, with a Black private eye investigating a case on behalf of her son's father that gets closer and closer to home. When Death Comes Stealing is my introduction to author Valerie Wilson Wesley and her series featuring Tamara Hayle. I’m avoiding police procedurals and standalone “women in peril'' thrillers to focus on ladies who are amateur sleuths. My Year of (Mostly) Mysterious Women continues with series fiction featuring women detectives. ![]()
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