Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> African American & Black - Mystery & Detective

Charlene "Charlie" Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigations firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators are highly skilled and trustworthy, but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama following the trail of a missing person, what should be a routine case turns into a complex chase for answers. Shady locals and a southern patriarch with dark...

When one is born into a family of crime, can he rise above and become someone? Are we forever bound by what life has dealt us or is there a way out? Read the exciting story of Jupiter, a teenage black kid caught between his mother and aunt, and the struggle to control their drug dealing business. Jupiter's journey, from a scared teen looking out for his younger sister to a successful high school graduate with a Harvard scholarship, will inspire and move you. "Innocent Crook" is about overcoming your circumstances, learning that family alone doesn't define you and that the power to succeed...

Two tales from the case files of New Orleans best psychic detectives

New Orleans is a city full of charm, history, and secrets. Charmaine and Jessi Joliet are private detectives as unique as the place they call home. Sisters from the rough side of town, they use their street smarts to solve mysteries. But they've got an edge over crooks, their competitors, and even the cops. They're psychics who can call on dead confidential informants to give them inside scoop from the great beyond. So, who you gonna call when your life is complicated by scoundrels, alive and/or dead? These...

In the tradition of satirical works of Swift and Twain, with nods to the likes of William Burroughs, Asimov and Philip K. Dick, these tales contain vigilante First Ladies, Supreme Court judges who can clone themselves, gear-popping robots of doom, and races of ancient lizard people...

"Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects an overlooked chapter of history to our own continuing struggles with race today." --Charles Frazier, bestselling author of Cold Mountain

"This page-turner reads like the best of James Ellroy." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"In the way the story is told coupled with...

Sam Campbell was intuitively proud of his African American heritage. Yet little did he know of his other lineage, one shrouded in a strange and powerful myth that would lead him to a dangerous, unforgiving world.

 On a terrifying and unimaginable quest, Sam and his erstwhile companions must dare to venture to the most ancient of Egyptian pyramids, journey across the world to reach one of the most revered Hindu Temples of India, and furthermore, uncover a profound legacy embedded in the lost Native American City of Cahokia. Ominously, hideous dark forces of nature await them,...

Evan Reynolds is a husband and father with a history of alcohol abuse. He masterfully manages his demons without disrupting his daily life... until the day his infant daughter is found drowned to death. Evan has no memory of what happened, but holds himself accountable. Willing to accept whatever punishment that comes his way, Evan is assigned a young public defender who is too caught up in his own personal issues to focus on Evan's case. Ryan Du Bois, Evan's attorney, seeks out the help of experienced lawyer Michael Ayers only to be turned away.

Michael, the wealthy attorney...

"Reads like the best of James Ellroy." --Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Darktown

"Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers." --The Washington Post, on Darktown

From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a "combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you" (The New York Times)....

No Justice, No Peace: A Cautionary Tale is a story that details what MacHutchens believes is the only way to break a nearly four hundred year American tradition of whites murdering Blacks without consequence. In his own words, he says, "This has to be the only means of African Americans to finally achieve the same measure of justice whites have enjoyed since they embarked on the genocide of the continent's native peoples. Were there any other possible way, it would have happened by now."