Jackson Park (Cook County Mystery) - Softcover

In 1968, with Chicago on the verge of exploding following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Woodson and Ivy Lisle, an older African-American couple, join forces with their college student grandniece, Cassandra, to investigate the disappearance of the granddaughter of an old family friend, only to uncover a dangerous link to an old murder case. Original.

laimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery novels comes a thrilling new series featuring an unforgettable trio of sleuths. By turns gritty and gracefully written, Jackson Park is a compelling novel of noir suspense—a fast-paced page-turner that is also a glimpse inside Black life in Chicago during a pivotal moment in American history.

It is the Spring of 1968. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the city of Chicago is a powder keg ready to explode. Against this tense backdrop, there is Woodson and Ivy Lisle, an elegant couple living in a shabby chic apartment hotel in Cook County’s Hyde Park. Both are proud patriarchs of a large, extended family, which includes their twenty-year-old grandniece, Cassandra, a college student standing at the crossroads— and on the brink of a troubling mystery involving the missing granddaughter of an old family friend.

Fearing for the girl’s safety, Woody, Ivy, and Cassandra begin a determined investigatio