Mystery in Harare

In the opening of “Mystery in Harare,” Book #2, the bride pauses for an instant before walking down the aisle to marry a man she likes but does not love; and in that hesitant moment a shot rings out, and then another. The groom falls. Blood stains the sanctuary.

Priscilla J. “PJ” Austin—a magnetic, up-and-coming, mixed-race baby boomer—catches a glimpse of the shooter before everything blacks out for the bride.

Set in the mid1980s, “Mystery in Harare Priscilla’s Journey into Southern Africa” is a stylish, fast-paced, character-driven thriller that unravels the secrets behind this carnage at a Midwestern American black church.

Priscilla’s fortitude is sorely tried as she awakens, sometime later—sedated and confused, on the outskirts of Harare, Zimbabwe—to face the adventure of her life. She is “stashed” away, more than once, down deep into the savannas and the wilds of southern Africa—Zimbabwe and apartheid-ruled South Africa, where she falls prey to the vicious South African Nationalist Movement’s Patrol Guard (the SANM PG).

Along the way, there is mayhem, murder, mistaken identities, and a barbed reunion with Carlton Elliott Bernhardt—a swarthy, intrepid special operative, who may be her one true love.