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2021., Adult, Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company Call No: BLK MYS Fic Mos Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Easy Rawlins mysteries. Volume: 15Summary Note: It is 1969. Protest wafts like smoke through the thick air, and Black private detective Easy Rawlins gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran. The young man comes to Easy with a story that makes little sense, about his lover, a beautiful young woman, and a man he may have killed. Inclined to turn down what sounds like nothing but trouble, Easy takes the case when he realizes he can't ignore their bond as veterans. The veteran is not Easy's only unlooked-for trouble. His adopted daughter Feather's white uncle shows up uninvited, unsettling the life Easy has forged for her. Where Feather sees a family reunion, Easy suspects something else, something that will break his heart.
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c2001., Little, Brown Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Narrator Paris Minton is an appealing figure an easygoing black man for whom the written word is salvation and whose nameless used bookstore in Watts is paradise. Then the beautiful Elana Love enters his store and brings with her more trouble than Paris has ever seen enough trouble that Paris knows his only hope is his friend Fearless Jones. A former soldier, Jones is a riveting new creation. He's a man of both principle and action with an innate sense of justice and as his name makes clear, he's afraid of nothing. The novel rips along with a hunt for the girl and a race among competing factions to find a missing bond that's the key to a fortune. For the black characters it's a desperate struggle to stay alive in a white world where the deck is stacked. One sly reference tells the reader we're still in the same world and time inhabited by Easy Rawlins, and that Fearless and Mouse are equally "bad." But Fearless is also a knight-errant and hopefully destined for further adventures as fine as this one.
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-- 1-shot Harry.2022., Soho Crime Call No: BLK MYS Fic Phi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King's Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, the white jazz trumpeter Ben Kingslow, with whom he'd only just reconnected. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos there are signs of foul play. Ingram feels no choice but to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, Harry Ingram plunges head-first into the seamier underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, blackmailers, gangsters, zealots and lovers, all in the hope of finding something resembling justice for a friend.
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2009., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: MYS Fic Pat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mark Darrow returns to Caldwell College 16 years after his graduation when his mentor, Lionel Farr, brings him back to become Caldwell's president. The school is still haunted by the tragic murder of Angela Hall, an African American student who was strangled and left outside the school's landmark spire. Fresh off a football victory, Mark was the one who found Angela, and it was his best friend, Steve, who was convicted of the murder. Now Caldwell is once again facing a scandal, but Mark can't forget Angela's murder, or the nagging feeling that his friend might be innocent. As his suspicions center on a former classmate who testified against Steve, Mark finds himself falling for Farr's daughter, Taylor, the first woman he's had serious feelings for since the death of his wife two years ago.
