Kiss Me Deadly: Midnight Sleeper Series – Book 3 by Raeder Lomax
428 Pages
Publisher: Hudson Square Press HSP
Release Date: June 30, 2023
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, 1920s, Prohibition, Bootlegging
Camilla Knight is an aging stage performer known for her kiss me deadly snake dance act. Shelby Prevettee left her Mississippi family estate and lives with Virginia Swain, a stage actress. They met in December on the train when Shelby shared her bootleg rye whiskey. Zola, Shelby’s cousin, is a journalist in New York, is helping Al Machman, a Mississippi attorney. He is looking into the blackmail photo of Addison Prevettee, Shelby’s father with Camilla in a compromising position. Beau LaHood is fired from his Pullman Porter position because of a boy’s death last year. The boy drank cheap liquor and died. Beau did not have anything to do with it but his parents need someone to blame.
The entire cast, plus some more are back in the second book in the series. It has a fast pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in third person point of view. Because of the era, there are derogatory names and racial slurs. If you like the jazz era, prohibition, bootleggers, and/or trains, you will enjoy reading this book.
