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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."A moving and unflinching portrait of a city and its many layers of power...Taylor has created a hero we see all too rarely: black, female, powerful." -- Tim Teeman, Senior Editor of The Daily Beast"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



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Goldie Taylor

Goldie Taylor is a veteran journalist, opinion writer and cable news political analyst.  She is currently Editor-At-Large at The Daily Beast.

The now former campaign strategist has been featured on nearly every major network - including NBC News, MSNBC, ABC News, CNN and HLN - and she has been a guest on programs such as HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, The Dr. Phil Show, The Steve Harvey Show, and Good Morning America. Taylor is a frequent guest on a full host of local and national radio shows, including NPR's All Things Considered, and has written dozens of guest op-ed columns for Salon, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Grio, Huffington Post, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and Essence among others. In November 2015, Taylor penned a blockbuster cover story Ebony Magazine about the legacy of comedic icon Bill Cosby and made a cameo appearance on BET's Being Mary Jane. She was a contributing producer for "CNN Presents: The Atlanta Child Murders."

Taylor is the author of In My Father's House (Wheatmark Press, 2005) and The January Girl (Warner Books, 2007/ Hachette Grand Central 2008) . She is currently working on her third novel, Paper Gods, and her first non-fiction title, The Devil and Missouri Daniel, a family memoire set in Reconstruction-era Arkansas.

The mother of four grown children and two grandchildren, she is wholly convinced - in her words-- that "God has a sense of humor." Taylor lives with her family in Atlanta and Brooklyn.



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