Vee W. Garcia
United States
jazzeigh
New! A Biography
Highlights in the life of drummer and harpist Robert M. Garcia, a gifted American musician of Afro-Cuban descent, who achieved an unusual and difficult accomplishment late in his career. Find out much more about this book and this unique musician on the
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Novels >
Meet strong and colorful characters in these historical and contemporary cozy suspense novels with jazz themes and great settings: Paris, France; New York City, DC, and an island in southern Florida.
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Discover Forbidden Circles, the story of an American artist studying in Paris, France, for a year during the era of the Harlem Renaissance and Hot Jazz!
In The Jazz Flower, follow the evolution of a jazz singer from DC to New York City and to Paris, during the Swing and Bebop eras!
And with Whatever It Takes, in which smooth Jazz is a motif, thrill to the suspense of a writer caught up in romance and danger on an island in southern Florida.
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Nora Johnson, a Howard University instructor, travels to Paris to study art for a year. In Paris she becomes friends with Douglas Stills, a hotel doorman; Dianne Essex, an Afro-English student; and Vernon Cooper, a trumpet player who is full of secrets and lies. Will Nora's "friends" destroy her?
APPLAUSE FOR FORBIDDEN CIRCLES:
"Vee Garcia has unveiled a world of beauty, treachery, and deep-seated passion."
- ---- Florida Sentinel Bulletin
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Former journalist Carleena Treadwell travels to San Pluma Island in southern Florida to write a mystery novel against a deadline. But on the island she meets gorgeous Omar Henderson, a vacationing doctor; and Gerald, her island landlady's strange-looking handyman. She then spirals into romance and danger.
KUDOS FOR WHATEVER IT TAKES:
"Ms. Garcia blends the mystery with the love interests as she showcases the mystique of this quaint island."
-- aNN Brown The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Mocha-hued beauty Rosa Johnson Stills evolves into a jazz singer in 1930s-'50s Washington, DC, and New York City, in spite of her grandmother Lilly's color prejudice; her own illicit love affairs with racketeer Jackson Parker and attorney Alan Covington; and a brutal murder. A riveting family saga and murder mystery, this novel moves at a nice pace and comes to a conclusion in Paris, France.
PRAISE FOR THE JAZZ FLOWER:
"A captivating tale...The Characters of the Jazz Flower are well developed, heartfelt and are faced with circumstances that are very real. Although this book is the sequel to Forbidden Circles...it is a stand alone book."
---- Nedine Hunter The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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“ . . . The Jazz Flower chronicles the life of Rosa Johnson Stills, the eldest daughter of Nora and Douglas Stills. … Garcia definitely does her research. . . Believe me, you will be reading this book well into the wee hours.”
— Janice Sims, Novelist Central Florida, USA
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Vee W. Garcia
United States
jazzeigh
