Join author Rebekah L. Pierce on Saturday, October 12, 2013 From 1-3 in Mechanicsville, VA at Books, Beads & More for her first book signing for Murder on Second Street: The Jackson Ward Murders. This work of historical fiction has been receiving 5 star reviews from readers across the country and beyond.
Book Synopsis:
“It’s 1929 and a local Negro neighborhood called Jackson Ward in Richmond, Virginia is booming. In fact, it’s called “The Black Wall Street of America” by economists of the day. Things are booming financially and socially for the Negro community, but then a series of what appears to be random murders of poor working class Negro women begins to happen and everyone is on edge, especially the Negro business owners. The Ward is a very tight community – strangers cannot move freely about in this segregated town. They hire haunted World War I veteran and alcoholic Sy Sanford to catch the cold-blooded murderer, but murder is not the only thing threatening to destroy “The Black Wall Street of America.” The real Wall Street is about to come tumbling down and plunge Jackson Ward and its infamous 2nd Street into a debilitative financial and social state from which it never recover.”
Copies of the book will be available for signing;there will also have a brief reading, followed by a Q & A. Please RSVP by October 10th. If you have a hard copy already, bring it and Rebekah will sign it for you.
Books, Beads & More
8324 Bell Creek Rd Suite 100, Mechanicsville, Virginia 23116
