Book Review: Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor

 I read this book over a year ago and never got my review up. Trying to catch up on books I read and didn't review.

Paperback, 336 pages
Published June 29th 2021 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published October 23rd 2018)

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"From buttermilk fried okra to bibles and bullets, the story comes out the gate moving and never lets up.” —Eric Jerome Dickey, New York Times bestselling author of A Wanted Woman

Now in paperback—The mayor of Atlanta and a washed-up reporter investigate a series of assassinations, and uncover a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of the city's political machine.

Mayor Victoria Dobbs Overstreet is a Harvard-trained attorney and Spelman alum, married to a celebrated heart surgeon, mother to beautiful twin girls, and a political genius. When her mentor, ally, and friend Congressman Ezra Hawkins is gunned down in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Victoria finds a strange piece of origami–a “paper god”–tucked inside his Bible. These paper gods turn up again and again, always after someone is killed. Someone is terrorizing those who are close to Mayor Dobbs, and she can't shake the feeling that the killer is close to her, too.

                                                    MY REVIEW:

Paper Gods: A Novel of Money, Race, and Politics by Goldie Taylor


There was a lot of intrigue and politics going on. I liked the book but just a little political for me.
Atlanta Mayor Victoria Dobbs Overstreet is a Harvard-trained attorney and Spelman alum, married to a celebrated heart surgeon, mother to beautiful twin girls, and a political genius.
People start dying and it loos like not by accident. Newspaperman Hampton Bridges is in a suspicious car accident that leaves him partially paralyzed. Congressman Ezra Hawkins is assassinated in his church. Both are connected to the Mayor.
Victoria finds a strange piece of origami–a “paper god”–tucked inside Ezra's Bible and they show up more in the book.
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