NEW RELEASE!!! The Mama Tree by Trisha O’Keefe is the third in the Southwest Georgia series. A mystery/thriller set in a small town with big issues, stretching like branches…

The Mama Tree lives in the Thicket, a place so wild it hides all kinds of creatures who don’t want to be seen. Prayer bundles and gris-gris bags dangle from its matronly branches like ornaments on a mother goddess. It has hidden Kenya and her disfigured face until, healed by the loving care of her grandmother, she emerges again, morphed into Chantal West, the sexy R&B Princess of Memphis.

Her triumph is shattered when the body of her childhood friend Holly Simpson is found in a dumpster. Could the fresh tattoo on the body possibly lead them to her killer? Kenya has hit many bumps on the road of life, and even some ditches, but there are no air bags for this ride.

Detective Grover Moss knows in one millisecond that this crazy, beautiful woman is the love he’s been looking for, and that she will be the next victim unless he finds him first.

The first was Hanahatchee, Deer Hawk Publications, 2012

The second, Lovesong of the Chinaberry Man, Black Opal Books, 2015.

As an anthropology student many years ago, Trisha O’Keefe became aware of the past’s potential for mystery. “Until an instructor remarked that some of my student papers sounded more like novels,” O’Keefe says. In response to her mother’s question, “All that’s interesting but what are you going to do for a living?” the author taught school. “Or they taught me,” she says. “I’m a perfect example of history repeating itself. As one of those exasperating children always asking ‘why?’ I ‘m faced with an entire classroom full of them every day.” O’Keefe lives in Georgia where she teaches and, of course, writes mysteries.

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency  Published by Black Opal Books