Slayed and Laid to Rest: A Wigmaker Mystery (Book 2)

Let me spill the tea about what Victory Simpson did.

She stole the name of Dee Alexander’s new wig line thirty minutes after Dee announced it to her YouTube subbies. Then she turned Dee’s best friend Ruby against her. And then somebody strangled Victory with a bundle of blonde wefts at the Wig Slayer Hair Expo.

Now, Dee didn’t care for the woman. Nobody did. Victory left a list of enemies longer than a thirty-inch body wave: the influencers she robbed, the husband she belittled, and the mentor she ruined.

But Dee has enough on her plate. She’s a fifty-something wig maker settled into her 55+ community in Indian Falls, North Carolina. Her custom line is finally taking off, her grown daughter is one semester from moving clear across the ocean, and a retired detective named Godfrey Nash is courting her with more patience than she’s earned. (And, honey, that man is fine.)

Then the police lock up the wrong folks. And Ruby, her ride-or-die, still isn’t speaking to her.

So Dee does what any grown woman with a sharp eye and a sharper tongue would do. She pours herself a sweet tea and whiskey, lays her edges, and follows a trail of missing bundles and alibis thinner than cheap lace. Not even a man in a Halloween mask jumping her on the way to her car can make her sit this one out.

Can Dee untangle the truth before an innocent person takes the fall? Can she make it right with Ruby? And can she hold on to a good man while she’s at it?

Slayed & Laid to Rest is book two of The Wig Maker Mysteries, a cozy whodunit full of Southern Black sisterhood, grown-woman romance, and a whole lot of laughs. No gore, no graphic scenes. Just heart, hair, and a mystery worth staying up for.

So fix your plate, pour something potent, and come on in because Dee’s got the tea.