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African American Whodunits


Cold and Silent DyingBland, Eleanor Taylor
Cold and Silent Dying
Suburban Chicago homicide detective Marti MacAlister investigates the death of a homeless woman that may be the result of a serial killing.

Dark & Deadly DeceptionBland, Eleanor Taylor
Dark & Deadly Deception
Unspoken fears, guilty secrets and divisions between rich and poor serve as the unsettling backdrop for this suspenseful mystery.

Passion, Betrayal, and Killer HighlightsDavis, Kyra
Passion, Betrayal, and Killer Highlights
Sophie Katz’s sister is in trouble after finding her husband’s lifeless body in the living room just a few hours after he’d announced he was leaving her for another woman.

Chasing the Devil’s TailFulmer, David
Chasing the Devil’s Tail
New Orleans provides the stage for this riveting and provocative mystery of sex, alcohol, drugs, insanity and murder.

JassFulmer, David
Jass
In the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call "jass" have turned up dead.

Cinnamon KissMosley, Walter
Cinnamon Kiss
Easy Rawlins needs some easy money-so he agrees to find a missing attorney who seems to be more trouble than he’s worth

Little Scarlet Mosley, Walter
Little Scarlet
Set during the 1965 Watts riots, Easy, now 45, is recruited by the LAPD to investigate a murder in that combat-zone neighborhood.

Bluebottle : a Lew Griffin novelSallis, James
Bluebottle : a Lew Griffin novel
Lew Griffin has lost a year of his life; now he must find out why and how and, at the same time, find himself.

Ghost of a Flea : a Lew Griffin novel Sallis, James
Ghost of a Flea : a Lew Griffin novel
A chronicle of the life of Lew Griffin--private detective, teacher, writer, poet; and a black man moving through a white man’s world.

Dying in the dark : a Tamara Hayle Mystery Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Dying in the dark : a Tamara Hayle Mystery
Tamara Hayle reluctantly agrees to investigate the murder of her former best friend from high school, Celia Jones.

Of Blood and Sorrow Wesley, Valerie Wilson
Of Blood and Sorrow
PI Tamara Hayle is hired to return a child to her mother, but when mom is murdered, Tamara needs to discover the killer before the police arrest her teenage son as a material witness.


The Devil RidingWilson Wesley, Valerie
The Devil Riding
Somwhere in the twilight zone that separates the poor and the wealthy of color are shocking secrets that need to be uncovered.

 
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