Charismatic, enigmatic, televangelist and philanthropist, Dr. Oma Mae Adams, lives a mission-filled life linked through fate to Gandhi and trussed by direct counsel from Jesus. Yet despite such divine favor, she is vulnerably human after all, as in the end, diabolical forces hold sway. Gunned down in front of the television station where she tapes her popular religious program, her shocking death leaves a bereft world with two questions:
who killed Oma Mae Adams ---and why?
In their new novel Jesus Gandhi Oma Mae Adams, co-authors and cousins Linda Lee Greene and Debra Shiveley Welch explore the dark depths of the human soul in a thrilling murder mystery mixing supernatural elements and intriguing suspense, spiced with history, romance, and unpredictable twists and turns.
Oma Mae Adams, an African American Televangelist whose philanthropic works endear her to the world, is beloved by many. Gunned down in front of the television station where she tapes her popular religious program, her shocking death leaves a bereft world with two questions: who killed Oma Mae Adams ---and why?
Excerpt
Mortified and with shoes in hand, Oma Mae paddled flatfooted to her office door, her burning feet smacking heavily on the tiled hallway floor. “WOMEN DO NOT HAVE HOT FLASHES! THEY HAVE POWER SURGES,” flashed across her brain, the words throbbing in her head like a strobe light on the set of Saturday Night Fever. What in the hell would Gail Sheehy know about hot flashes! I’ll lay odds she was popping estrogen pills like they were M&M’s when she wrote that one, Oma Mae blustered hotly, her breath so hot she quickly sipped it back in to keep it from scorching the tender insides of her feverish lips.
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