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A Rock and a Hard Place by Darryl Wimberley
Barrett Raines is a black detective in Deacon Beach, a sweltering
enclave in northwestern Florida. Seven years after Ramona
Walker, the town’s eternal Homecoming Queen, helped push
Barrett onto the all-white force despite bigoted opposition,
Raines has made a place for himself—to all appearances he is
accepted. But affections can be fickle, as Barrett discovers when
Ramona is brutally raped and murdered, and his despised
brother, Delton, becomes chief suspect for the crime. It’s a
no-win situation for Barrett...
Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
Dead Man's Bay by Darryl Wimberley
Barrett Raines is about to learn more about life on the dark
side of Florida than he ever could have imagined. His life is
falling apart at the seams: His wife has left him, taking their
twin sons, and he is confined to desk duty because of failing
performance. When Barrett and his partner Cricket are finally
assigned to a new case involving a brutally murdered man and
possible illegal activities, they gladly accept it even though it
looks like it will be a dead end. They could not have been
more wrong. The case leads Barrett to Dead Man’s Bay...
Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
Strawman's Hammock by Darryl Wimberley
Barrett Raines is offered an opportunity to run for Lafayette
County sheriff against Lou Sessions. Backing Raines is Linton
Loyd, a powerful businessman and Sessions’ enemy. Barrett
doesn’t understand why a rich white man would want to back
him, an African-American, but it’s an appealing opportunity…
until Loyd’s son becomes a suspect in the death of a Hispanic
migrant female who was found shackled to the walls of a hut
in a swamp called Strawman’s Hammock...
Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
Pepperfish Keys by Darryl Wimberley
Special agent Barrett "Bear" Raines has some slippery fish to fry in Wimberly's cleverly constructed fourth procedural, which hinges on the gruesome murder of Beth Ann Stanton, daughter of Florida senator Baxter Stanton. Raines, "a black cop in a white town"—that of Deacon Beach, just north of the Pepperfish Keys—is still smarting from his recent failure to tie the senator's wealth to dirty money. Eddy DeLeon, Beth Ann's boyfriend and a local criminal, becomes a key suspect after his tryst with Beth Ann on the day of the murder comes to light. When Sharon Fowler, an ambitious local TV reporter, offers to help Bear nail DeLeon, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent agrees despite his misgivings...
Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
Pariah by Tom Zigal
In Aspen, ex-hippies drive Volvos, ski bums cut million-dollar deals, and Sheriff Kurt Muller is the law: a single father with a checkered past and the notion that right and wrong still matter. But one evening, against his better judgment, Muller spends the night comforting an old flame, a reclusive heiress named Nicole Bauer who’s convinced her ex-lover, the 60s blues idol Rocky Rhodes, is threatening to kill her. Kurt doesn’t believe her story, for good reason: twenty years earlier, Rocky’s body was found on the grounds of the Bauer mansion, and Nicole was charged with his murder. But the next morning, Nicole is found dead, and Kurt is a prime suspect...
Publication date: April 2008 More Info... |  |
The Dawning of the Day by Haim Sabato
A humble man and a religious man, who worked as a presser in a laundry, Ezra Siman Tov was also a teller of stories, stories that enthralled and captivated his friends in their old Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His brother-in-law, Dr. Tawil, gave him a grudging respect, the Torah scholars listened surreptitiously and the Great Writer—SY Agnon?—took his stories and gave them form. But along with his stories, Ezra also had a shame and a secret, which overshadowed his family. And his secret suffering never left him quite free...
Publication date: April 2008 More Info... |  |
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