Carolyn Marie Wilkins is a practicing Reiki Master, a Psychic Medium and an initiated Priestess of Yemaya, the African goddess of compassion, motherhood and the ocean.   Her other novels Mojo For Murder and Melody For Murder feature the crime-fighting exploits of Bertie Bigelow, a forty-something choir director and amateur sleuth living on the South Side of Chicago.  Carolyn’s nonfiction work includes Damn Near White: An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success; They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her, and Tips For Singers: Performing, Auditioning, Rehearsing.  Author of Death at a Seance   In addition, Carolyn is a professor at Berklee College of Music. An accomplished jazz pianist and vocalist, she has performed in concert throughout the United States, Africa, Asia, and South America, where she toured as a Jazz Ambassador for the US State Department.     When she is not writing or performing, Carolyn maintains a private practice in healing and mediumship.  Her New Age Talk Show, Carolyn’s Psychic Playroom, can be seen monthly on Cambridge Community Television. Carolyn’s online class Magical Communication: How To Talk To Your Ancestors is available on Udemy.com.   To find out more, visit www.carolynwilkins.com