Catalog Search Results
61) Graveyard love
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jakia thinks her young-girl love and innocence can turn set-up thug Spencer Spade Johnson into the man of her dreams. But the fairytale she lives in her mind is soon knocked straight once he introduces her to the power of his fist. He abuses her, disrespects her, and manipulates her into believing she's not worth anything more than the hell he's created for her within their home. Spade and his comrade-cousin, Rocko, use Jakia in a dangerous mission,...
62) Sin for me
Author
Series
Motor City Royals volume 3
Language
English
Description
It was anything but easy, but Gideon Black has finally managed to create a safe haven for himself on the gritty streets of Detroit. He worked hard to get on the straight and narrow, pulling himself up from an underground crime syndicate before it consumed him completely. But the past isn't staying put, and now that it's come calling, it's not after him, but the woman he considers the closest thing he has to family ... Zoe James has always loved Gideon...
Author
Series
Will Anderson novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancée, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company---Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancé and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. He finds Cooper dead, crushed in a huge hydraulic roof press. Surprised by the police, Will panics and runs, leaving behind his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
1940's Detroit: the war effort is in full swing and racial tensions are running high. When a vivacious white heiress is murdered in the black part of town, the city threatens to erupt into mob violence, bringing the factories to a grinding halt and imperiling Allied forces around the world.
Newly minted Detective Pete Caudill is charged with covering up the crime in the interests of civic peace and finding some kind of justice for the dead girl....
65) The operator
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
66) Proof of intent
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Okay, so your client is a liar. Does that make him a murderer?
In the dark hours of morning, Charley Sloan arrives at the palatial home of Miles Dane, celebrated novelist from the Detroit suburb of Pickeral Point, to find Dane's wife murdered in their bed.
Dane tells Charley he was downstairs working. Heard nothing, saw nothing.
The police arrive. Dane tells his story again. Only, this time there's a mysterious intruder fleeing down the hallway,...
67) Unknown man #89
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one is Leonard's equal,-and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard's riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.
The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing stockholder leads him into more serious peril than he ever imagined possible, Unknown Man #89 is a gourmet stew of mystery, suspense, and double and triple cross, peppered with the razor sharp dialogue for which Grand...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times called Porter Shreve's first novel, The Obituary Writer, "an involving and sneakily touching story whose twists feel less like the conventions of a genre than the convolutions of a heart-any heart." Newsday hailed the book as "a substantial achievement," and Tim O'Brien described it as "taut, compelling, and moving . . . beautifully written, engrossing from start to finish." Shining with the same heart and humor, Shreve's second...
70) Death list
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kenyatta has it good. He's got the ladies, the clubs, and the guns. The only problem is the shady dealers who are running the drugs in Detroit. It's time to get them out, even if it means upping the ante and making a deal with the men in blue. Once the plan is in place, nobody's safe, everyone's a target, and the streets are about to flood with blood.--Back cover.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you want to rule the streets, you can’t get bum rushed-a stone-cold fact Kenyatta’s learned through brutal firsthand experience. He’s got the guns and the soldiers, a street-smart army raised on desperation and injustice and ready to fight the power by any means necessary. But the cops have located Kenyatta’s hideout-and they’re coming in armed to the teeth. Kenyatta is not giving up without a fight. The time is now: man up, go to war,...
72) Arm candy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"King is an underground record producer in Detroit who's finally getting shine and being recognized for his talent. Everything would be perfect if he didn't have an addiction to arm candy. King loves beautiful women. He flaunts them at parties, kicks it with them during studio sessions, and has his way with them -- all while his woman is busy working to help support his dream. Samira is King's girlfriend, the person who has been his monetary backbone....
Author
Series
Payback novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Picking up where the suspenseful Payback with Ya Life left off, we're plunged back into the hip-hop drama, where the men are hot and dangerous, the women know their shoes from their Choos, and they will stop at nothing to get what they want. In a game of power and intrigue where the stakes are high and the rewards are dazzling, the losers are gonna discover there's always a price to pay.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years ago Julia Gooden's brother Ben was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found, despite her own guilt and grief. Then, on the anniversary of Ben�s disappearance, Julia's two-year-old son, Will, is snatched from his bed--...
76) Motown
Author
Series
Detroit series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rick Amery has been offered a job as an undercover cop, "hired to dig up some slime on a consumer-safety organization that threatens to put Detroit's profitable auto industry on the skids."--Audio cassette container.
77) Dishonorable
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Markita "Kita" Jones is a young woman with plans for revenge. Her survival mode mentality forces her to make desperate decisions that might flip friends into foes and leave her at the mercy of her enemies."--
78) The judgment
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of innocence
In a rural area outside of Detroit, bodies are being found in the snow. One after another. Neatly washed, wrapped in plastic, methodically laid out like sleeping angels. And very, very young.
The birth of evil
Forty-miles away and at the other end of the world, an honest cop, the deputy chief of police, has been framed for a corruption charge. In a world of big-city politics, he wants ace lawyer Charley Sloan to get him off.
...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Pears on a Willow Tree is a multigenerational roadmap of love and hate, distance and closeness, and the lure of roots that both bind and sustain us all.
The Marchewka women are inseparable. They relish the joys of family gatherings; from preparing traditional holiday meals to organizing a wedding in which each of them is given a specific task -- whether it's sewing the bridal gown or preserving pickles as a gift to the newlyweds. Bound together by...
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barry Stackpole, Amos Walker's old friend, has vanished. Finding him is the job Walker's been hired for, not once, but twice - by Stackpole's newspaper, and by an attractive literary editor. But the trail becomes littered with an assortment of dead bodies.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request