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Where Jazz Plays Shadows Fall
Paperback
Series: The Long Way Home Trilogy, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Pam Kumpe
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
South isn't a place-it's where jazz remembered the truth.
When Emory Vaughn travels south to New Orleans to restore a forgotten café once owned by her late father, she expects peeling paint, stubborn memories, and maybe a second chance at peace. What she doesn't expect is a city that keeps secrets like it keeps rhythm-deep, layered, and impossible to silence.
The Blue Door Café once pulsed with music, mercy, and midnight confessions. Now it draws Emory into a web of buried truths involving a murdered woman, a silenced witness, and a powerful man who built an empire on fear and favors. As jazz rises again on the stage, so do questions no one wants answered-about family, loyalty, and the cost of telling the truth.
With the help of unexpected allies-including her fiercely protective brother, a streetwise musician, and a boy whose trumpet carries more hope than sorrow-Emory begins to unravel a story the city worked hard to forget. But in New Orleans, truth doesn't come quietly, and redemption always demands a price.
Where Jazz Plays, Shadows Fall is a redemptive Southern mystery about grief and grace, about what survives when lies are exposed, and about learning that sometimes home isn't found at the end of the road-but in the courage to face what's been waiting all along.
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