All That Is Secret
Patricia Raybon opens her Annalee Spain Mystery series with a sharp, atmospheric story set in 1923. Annalee Spain is a young Black woman teaching theology in Chicago when a telegram calls her back to Denver to look into her estranged father's murder. Drawing on her love of Sherlock Holmes, she sets out to find the truth in a city alive with the tensions of the era, including the rising Ku Klux Klan, and she does it while people keep telling her to stay out of it. Raybon blends a classic detective puzzle with the real history of race, faith, and class in the 1920s American West. The result is a mystery with a distinctive heroine, one who reasons like a sleuth and carries the weight of her time. It is the first book in a series.
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In 1923, a young Black theology professor returns to Denver to solve the murder of the father she barely knew.
Stephen Curry chose it as an Underrated Book Club pick in March 2022, spotlighting an author and story he felt deserved more attention.
All That Is Secret was written by Patricia Raybon, published in 2021 by Tyndale House Publishers.
All That Is Secret is 400 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, All That Is Secret takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
All That Is Secret is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.