Where Evil Sleeps
Valerie Wilson Wesley. Avon Books, $6.99 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-380-72908-1
Newark PI Tamara Hayle's Jamaica jaunt becomes a working vacation when she is entangled in a murder. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/02/1997
Genre: Fiction
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