Join us to celebrate this sparkling debut mystery set on the South Side of Chicago, featuring the quick-witted, unforgettable Savvy Summers, proprietor of a soul food café. Sandra Jackson-Opoku took part in a reading at Secret World Books for Another Chicago Magazine several months ago and we're so excited for her return!
When Savvy Summers first opened Essie's soul food café, she never expected her customer-favorite sweet potato pie to become the center of a murder investigation. But when Grandy Jaspers, the 75-year-old neighborhood womanizer, drops dead at table two, she suddenly has more to worry about than just maintaining Essie's reputation for the finest soul food in the Chicagoland area.
Even as the police deem Grandy’s death an accident, Savvy quickly finds herself―and her beloved café―in the middle of an entire city’s worth of bad press. Desperate to clear her name and keep her business afloat, Savvy and her snooping assistant manager, Penny Lopés, take it upon themselves to find who really killed Grandy.
But with a slimy investor harassing her to sell her name and business, customers avoiding her sweet potato pie like the plague, and her police sergeant ex-husband suddenly back in the picture, will Savvy be able to clear the café’s name and solve Grandy’s murder before it all falls apart?
After all, while Savvy always said her sweet potato pie was to die for, she never meant literally.
If you're a mystery lover, a sweet potato pie lover, or just a general book lover, we hope you can join us!
You may also like the following events from Secret World Books:
- This Thursday, 7th August, 07:00 pm, Ananda Lima Presents Her Acclaimed Short Story Collection, CRAFT! in Highland Park
- This Saturday, 9th August, 02:00 pm, Mindy Uhrlaub presents her memoir Last Nerve in conversation with Leslie Lindsay! in Highland Park
- Next Saturday, 16th August, 11:00 am, Storytime with Maddy Flagg as Mother Bilbee! in Highland Park
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