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  Windy City Dying: A Marti MacAlister Mystery

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, and Marti fears she knows who it might be. In the meantime, her work as a suburban Chicago homicide detective has taken her back in time in another way, to a group of... (more)
• Keeping Secrets: A Gianna Maglione MysteryPenny Mickelbury

  

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  Keeping Secrets: A Gianna Maglione Mystery

  by Penny Mickelbury

  Mickelbury's debut offers a pair of lesbian sleuths--an Italian cop and a black reporter--who spend work time tracking down a serial killer and play time pursuing each other. Four closeted gay professionals, three men and one woman, have been murdered in as many months. Despite efforts by Lt. Gianna Maglione, head of the Washington, D.C., police's Hate Crimes Unit, to impose a press blackout, a gay newspaper... (more)
• Darkness Descending (Mimi/Gianna Mysteries)Penny Mickelbury

  

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  Darkness Descending (Mimi/Gianna Mysteries)

  by Penny Mickelbury

  In this intriguing and sophisticated fourth novel of the Mimi/Gianna Mysteries, Mickelbury is masterful in her exploration of the underground lives of the AGs and Doms, the downlow brothas and the hidden world in which they live. Mimi Patterson, the passionate, resourceful investigative reporter and her partner, the impassioned, leader of D.C.'s Hate Crime Unit, Lt. Gianna Maglione find balance with each other... (more)
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  Tell No Tales: A Marti MacAlister Mystery

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  The blissful aftermath of Marti MacAlister's second wedding doesn't last long when her longtime partner Matthew "Vik" Jessennovik interrupts the honeymoon with some disturbing news. Two murders-one recent and another decades old-shock a wealthy Chicago suburb. Now Marti and Vik must get to the heart of two complex cases. And what they uncover will put their unlikely partnership at risk-not to mention their... (more)
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  Scream In Silence: A Marti MacAlister Mystery

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  Beloved for both her complex mysteries and her fascinating main character, African-American female cop Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland is "one of today's most talented mystery writers" (Booklist). Now Marti is newly married, juggling domestic bliss and a blended family, when an arsonist/bomber shatters the peace of their sleepy Chicago suburb. Suddenly Marti and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik are... (more)
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  Night Songs: A Gianna Maglione Mystery

  by Penny Mickelbury

  Police Lt. Gianna Maglione, who heads the Hate Crimes Unit in Washington, D.C., insists that a series of hooker murders belongs to her department: someone killed these women just for being women. Her lover, on the other hand, investigates the cases because she wants a good story for her newspaper. Since the two women have collided before in the course of work (Keeping Secrets, Naiad Pr., 1994), the conflicts... (more)
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  Where To Choose

  by Penny Mickelbury

  CAROLE ANN GIBSON: SHE USED TO UPHOLD THE LAW. NOW SHE FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE.Life isn't fair, but former D.C. lawyer Carole Ann Gibson believes it should be just.A year ago, catching her husband's killer strained her faith in the legal system to the breaking point.Now she's climbing out of a numbing grief, and a plea for help from her mother may be all she needs to snap her out of her lethargy...or get her killed.Her... (more)
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  Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)

  by Penny Mickelbury

  Before Carole Ann Gibson even has a chance to enjoy the white sand beaches of Isle de Paix, she senses there's something sinister lurking in this tiny Caribbean paradise. She's seen evidence of an international drug operation taking place, and somewhere on the island there's also a fugitive in hiding -- Denis St. Almain, a drug kingpin on the run from a murder charge. Carole Ann's famous smarts, instincts,... (more)
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  See No Evil (A Marti MacAlister Mystery)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home-zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti.
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  Always

  by Nicola Griffith

  Aud Torvingen is back-contemporary fiction's toughest, most emotionally complicated noir hero returns to teach a new round of lessons in hard-hitting justice, and to confront new adversaries: her own vulnerability and desire. The steely shell of Nicola Griffith's seemingly indomitable protagonist Aud Torvingen appears to be cracking. The six-foot-tall fury (who proved in The Blue Place and Stay that she... (more)
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  Slow Burn (Marti MacAlister Mystery)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  The deaths of a young woman and little girl in a suspicious fire that destroys a woman's clinic lead homicide detective Marti MacAlister and her partner, Vik Jessenovik, on the trail of an evil killer with a taste for young girls. Reprint. PW. AB.
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  A Dark and Deadly Deception: A Marti MacAlister Mystery (Marti Macalister Mysteries)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, one of the film+s stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines River. Then, the skeletal remains of another gunshot victim are discovered in a hundred year old building that is being renovated. The closer Marti comes to piecing together the clues... (more)
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  A Cold and Silent Dying: A Marti MacAlister Mystery (Marti Macalister Mystery)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  Lincoln Prairie Homicide Detective Marti MacAlister does not get along with her new boss. Lieutenant Gail Nicholson disapproves of what she calls Marti's sloppy work habits, and regards her success as a fluke rather than the result of hard work and skill. Marti thinks the woman just may be feeling overly competitive with her, as one of the only other women on the job, and a black woman at that, but Marti knows... (more)
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  Fatal Remains (A Marti MacAlister Mystery)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  When Marti MacAlister responds to a report of skeletal remains found on a wooded piece of land, she has no idea it's just the first indication of a convoluted case of murder and conspiracy dating back hundreds of years. The skeleton is quite a mystery in itself, leading Native American groups and historians specializing in the Underground Railroad to flock to the site. Unfortunately for all involved, the violence... (more)
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  Suddenly a Stranger: A Marti MacAlister Mystery (Marti Macalister Mysteries)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

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  Dead Time: The First Marti MacAlister Mystery (A Marti MacAlister Mystery)

  by Eleanor Taylor Bland

  Eleanor Taylor Bland's legion of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the first highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-and now one of the best-mystery series written by an African-American writer about an African-American female cop. DEAD TIME will take you on an exhilarating ride through the streets of Chicago with one of the most unforgettable characters in mystery fiction... (more)