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Also by Valerie Wilson Wesley:

The Mysterious Death Of Junetta Plum, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
A Shimmer of Red, August 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
A Fatal Glow, March 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
A Glimmer of Death, January 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Of Blood and Sorrow, February 2008
Hardcover
Playing My Mother's Blues, February 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Playing My Mother's Blues, June 2006
Trade Size

PLAYING MY MOTHER'S BLUES
By: Valerie Wilson Wesley

Avon
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0061015539
EAN: 9780061015533
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery Psychological | Multicultural Mystery

Dani Carter was seven years old—her sister, Rose, seventeen—when their beautiful, impetuous mother, Maria, walked out of their lives, abandoning her husband and family for a love affair that would end tragically mere months later. Now, after decades, Dani's own loveless marriage is faltering—propelling her into the arms of another and inspiring troubling thoughts of escape from her husband and beloved young son.

Dani fears the sins of the mother have been visited upon the daughter. And, unlike Rose, who never speaks of their lost parent, Dani can't help but wonder who Maria really was. It's a puzzle that may soon be solved because, in a time of emotional and physical chaos, Maria, calling herself Mariah, is about to re-enter her daughters' worlds—bearing secrets and bitter truths... and, perhaps, long-awaited answers.