Kiss of Salvation

by Waights Taylor Jr.

Overview

"I'm pretty sure the victim is a prostitute, and the MO looks just like the murder last month," Joe McGrath said. "The victim was garroted, and the body was arranged like an X. Whoever is killing these women is leaving a calling card behind."

1947 Birmingham, Alabama, cloaks many mysteries under its segregated shroud: glittering social soirées, secret sexual parties, a Machiavellian civic leader, and multiple murders of black prostitutes in dark alleys. Racist police chief, Big Bob Watson, reluctantly assigns Homicide Detective Joe McGrath to the case. The black community stonewalls the investigation. Joe teams up with Sam Rucker, the city's only black private eye. Working across the racial boundaries of the day, they take us step-by-step to the city's heart of darkness in search of an elusive vicious killer.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157778941
Publisher:	McCaa Books
Publication date:	04/10/2016
Series:	A Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective Novel , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	365
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Waights Taylor Jr., born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, lives in Santa Rosa, California. His professional career included twenty-four years in the aviation industry and twenty-two years in management consulting. When his professional career was coming to an end, he turned to writing. His first book, Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic—An Artist’s History of the Slavic People, was published in 2008, and his second book, the award winning Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham—The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century, was published in 2011.

Editorial Reviews

McGrath fears that the town may have a psychopath on the loose. . . . Case closed? Not when McGrath's on the case with his new teammate, African-American private eye Sam Rucker. . . . Taylor's dialogue is terrific . . . This book is a page-turner, and when the investigators finally close in on the killer, it's impossible to set the novel down."

KIRKUS Review

The Kiss of Salvation takes us back to the dawn of the Civil Rights movement in 1947 Birmingham, Alabama. It's a murder mystery, a history, and an in-depth study of evolving times in the American
South. Deftly written and immensely readable, Taylor paints a picture of a complex era in American culture. Highly recommended/

Sheldon Siegal