Description: When Tai Randolph plans on some time out of Atlanta and a romantic rendezvous with her boyfriend Trey, her past shows up in the form of her ex-boyfriend, who spins a tale of a stolen Civil War artifact that Tai agrees to help recover. As it turns out, Trey's on the case too, representing a wealthy client wanting the same prize. But where there's money, there's usually murderthis time involving the KKK and Tai's kinfolk. As she unravels the clues to a 150-year-old mystery, she digs up secrets that force a confrontation with a ruthless killer.
Brief description:
Tina Whittle is a mystery writer living and working in southeastern Georgia. Her short fiction has appeared in the Savannah Literary Journal, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Gulf Stream Magazine, which selected her story "Lost Causes and Other Reasons to Live" as the 2004 winner of their mystery fiction contest. She is also a columnist and feature writer for a local alternative newspaper and is a professional tarot reader.
Review Quotes:
"Tai Randolph gets mixed up in the world of fanatical collectors in Whittle's lively third mystery featuring the Atlanta gun shop operator...As the action shifts unpredictably and the prize turns out to be quite different than either Tai or Trey supposed, Whittle skillfully shows her characters discovering how much they can trust each other."
-- "Publishers Weekly"