Penny Wanawake, the first black female sleuth works in a James Bond-like fashion with her dashing male counterpart to capture murders and solve crime.

If you like your sleuths elegant, exotic, and exuberaant, meet Britain's Penny Wanawake... Penny Wanawake, the daughter of an African diplomat father and an aristocratic English mother, is dismayed to arrive in California from London and discover her vacation mate is missing. Penny's even more horrified when Martha's body is found at LAX clothed with a white orchid and multiple stab wounds. Who would have killed kind Martha? A jealous model beaten out of photoshoot? Martha's racist father, the Senator, up for re-election and anxious to avoid scandal? Or two botantists battling over winning the black orchid breeding contest? Penny returns to DC where she pursues the blackhearted killer....