Meet strong and colorful characters in Vee Garcia's historical and contemporary cozy suspense novels with jazz themes and great settings:  Paris, France; New York City, DC, and an island in southern Florida.  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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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                                                  

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  ". . .It's really a beautiful story.  Some of it I can relate to.  It's wonderful!"                           

                                                                 --- Tamm E. Hunt, Jazz Singer                                              

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It's 1925 and 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        ===================================================================== 

 AND REGARDING THE BIOGRAPHY:

HIGH PRAISE:                                                                                             "I thoroughly enjoyed reading the biography.  Thank you for                  sharing [Robert Garcia's] life story with us."                               ---- Ronnie Hampton                                         Educator                                 _____________                                       "I read FROM DRUMS TO HARP, and I absolutely loved it."      ----  Vincent Sims                Musician (Guitarist)