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A Shimmer of Red

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by Valerie Wilson Wesley
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The latest novel in a thrilling cozy mystery series featuring Odessa Jones—a sudden widow juggling a promising catering business, a full-time real estate gig—and a psychic gift that leads her to solve mysteries whenever they appear to her—which is often. From the award-winning creator of Newark private eye Tamara Hayle, will appeal to fans of cozy mysteries and multicultural fiction.

With pandemic-fearing city dwellers fleeing to the New Jersey suburbs, Risko Realty—and Odessa Jones—are having their best year ever. Finally on solid financial footing, Odessa is debt-free and looking forward to the future. But she doesn't need second sight to sense her new young co-worker, Anna Lee, is on edge—and straight-up terrified—in spite of her hot sales record and sunny, outgoing attitude. And when Anna is killed in a hit-and-run, Odessa sees immediately that it was no accident . . .

It's soon clear that Anna was being stalked. But even with the help of family, friends—and Odessa's feisty cat, Juniper—Odessa is coming up with more questions than clues. Why was Anna avoiding influential real-estate mogul Emily Delbarton? Why is Delbarton's decidedly creepy brother so fixated on Anna? Did Anna make enemies through her previous job at the town's exclusive gentlemen's club? And can Odessa rule out her own ex-fiancé—who's back in her life with an astounding connection to Anna—and wanting a second chance? Finding the answers will come at an increasingly deadly cost—one Odessa's talents must somehow trap a killer to repay . . .

Praise for A Glimmer of Death
"There's crispness in Wesley's plotting and sparkle in the supporting characters."
—Los Angeles Times
"Wesley perfectly captures her protagonist's emotions, including the lingering melancholy she feels for her late husband. . . . Readers will hope to see a lot more of kind, empathetic Odessa." —Publishers Weekly

  • Creators

  • Series

    Odessa Jones Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 25, 2023

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9781496739667

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      • ISBN: 9781496739667
      • File size: 624 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      June 1, 2023
      A suburban New Jersey realtor gifted with second sight tangles with another killer. No sooner has Tanya Risko introduced her two latest hires to the veteran staff at Risko Realty--clairvoyant sometime caterer Odessa Jones, father figure Vinton Laverne, Afghanistan vet Harley Wilde, and single parent Louella, who's struggling to raise her daughter, Erika, as she recovers from her own mother's death--than one of the newbies is flattened by a hit-and-run driver. Like her friend Bella Mondavi, the late Anna Lee had left hoity-toity Delbarton Estates to join Risko Realty, and the first mystery to present itself is why. Well-heeled CEO Emily Delbarton, who wants to hire Dessa and Louella to cater an event, won't speak ill of the dead, but her brother, Edgar, who first met Anna when she was working at the strip club BUNS, feverishly demands what "Angel" left him--a likely tip-off even to readers who aren't clairvoyant that he'll be the next victim. Dessa, who's still in the early stages of learning to control the mysterious visions that come to her, is distracted when she realizes that house stager Rosalie Davis' dying father is Terrence Davis, the first love who skipped out on her without a word a week before their wedding. Instead of just tossing in this sort-of-romantic subplot, Wesley makes it pivotal to her story in ways that turn up the pressure on Dessa as lover, sleuth, and seer. A meager ration of clues leads to a compelling payoff.

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    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2023

      In Wesley's third Odessa Jones mystery (following A Fatal Glow), widow Odessa's dual careers, as a real estate agent and a caterer, are finally taking off. When Dessa's boss at Risko Realty hires two young women real estate agents from a rival agency, not everyone is welcoming. At the same time, Dessa's ex-fianc� reappears in her life and wants to make amends. After one of the new agents is killed by a hit-and-run driver while jogging, the police want to call it an accident, but Dessa isn't convinced. With the help of her two aunts, her coworkers, and retired cop Lennox Royal, she starts to piece everything together. Will her psychic gifts help her identify the guilty party before someone else is killed? VERDICT Odessa's psychic gifts (divining a person's emotions by seeing colored glimmers around their head, and sensing and smelling things that others can't) are a creative plot device. Her aunts add humor to the mystery, and it's good to see characters from the previous novels return. Recommend to fans of paranormal cozies and culinary mysteries.--Jean King

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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