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JA'NISE "NISEY" DAVIS' life is far from a fairy tale. And when her soon-to-be husband, Trevan "TC" Clayton, is shot to death right in front of her on the night he proposes to her, her life takes a dramatic turn for the worse. TC's mother gives all her son's worldly possessions away-including he and Nisey's Florissant suburban home-to a two-bit con-artist/ex-pimp turned reverend. Nisey is left with no other choice but to move back to the drug-i...

Shadow Play is the first in a series set in rural Malaysia during the 1970s. At the center of the series is Mak Cik Maryam, one of the middle-aged aunties who sell batiks in the local market. Here, she will solve a murder related to the world of Shadow Play, the traditional Malaysian theater.

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The Oath of a Gangster is unparalleled. It cannot be reproduced nor acquired. It is rare! That's why Nu-Bo is so intrigued by the way in which his life is unfolding. He knows not what to do. He is the Street General for the most respected and feared Organization in Kansas City, Missouri, with the death penalty looming over his head. And the brotha (Ndugu) from anotha that he just met could put his life in the proper perspective. With the...

A year and a half later Spade's legitimate business endeavors have come to fruition. But he still has one foot in, one foot out. He's still on the hunt for the elusive Maria, and he struggles internally as he tries to manage both worlds. But the game pushes him to the limit. An unknown foe surfaces and puts him in a compromising position. And an underworld war breaks out. Deception, death, and fleeting opportunity envelope Spade. Will he Ri...

At the height of her street career, Nisey Davis is charged with trafficking and faces a fate that has befallen many hustlers before her-federal prison time. She isn't too optimistic of the outcome, so she nominates her sister, Shanise Davis, as the leader of the Trap-A-Rellas. This decision doesn't go over well with every member of the clique ... and the betrayal begins.

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World War II rages on, and Inspector Alleyn continues as the Special Branch's eyes and ears in New Zealand. While his primary brief is spy-catching, he's also happy to help with old-fashioned policing. Flossie Rubrick, an influential Member of Parliament and the wife of a sheep farmer, is murdered. Had she made political enemies? Had a mysterious legacy prompted her death? Or could the shadowy world of international espionage have intruded on ...

The murder of an esteemed drug dealer has Levour "Tre Pound" King fighting for his life, not just in court, where he's facing life without parole, but in the unforgiving streets, where his enemies prefer to give him the death penalty. Tre Pound comes from a family of well-known hustlers. He's a hood star. Women are his playthings, even a secret affair with his homeboy's little sister doesn't satisfy him. He's 21 years old and believes the city...

The shabby Vulcan theater is not where Martyn Tarne hoped to work when she moved from New Zealand to London to pursue an acting career. But Martyn takes a job as dresser to the Vulcan's leading lady. This provides her with a ringside seat to the backstage circus: the aging alcoholic actor, the waspish playwright, the surprisingly gracious grande dame. There is, of course, a murder, so--enter Inspector Alleyn.

Lord Pastern and Baggot is a classic English eccentric, given to passionate, peculiar enthusiasms. His latest? Drumming in a jazz band. His wife is not amused, and even less so when her daughter falls hard for Carlos Rivera, the band's sleazy piano player. Aside from the young woman, nobody likes Rivera very much, so there's a wealth of suspects when he is shot in during a performance. Happily, Inspector Alleyn is in the audience.

A delicious, classic country-house mystery. Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearian actor, has arranged to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. She's rather glad to be stepping out of Alleyn's shadow, and when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, Troy tries sleuthing on her own. But she's got a family full of suspects to contend with, and is pleased at last to hand things over to Alleyn.

When Emma O'Brea's husband, Charlie, disappears, it quickly becomes apparent that Emma was the only person in Canada who didn't recognize how desperate he had been to leave. Eddie Addison is an overgrown delivery boy dangerously obsessed with a pretty young student. Eddie and Emma would seem to have little in common, but when Inspector Karl Alberg is called in to solve the riddle of Charlie's vanishing act, the two sets of disturbing delusions...

Last in the delightfully funny Valentine-and-Lovelace series, Canary finds our two protagonists a bit the worse for wear. Their bar is losing money, largely because someone keeps insisting on leaving dead bodies around. The cops, this is the 1980s, after all, are not wildly interested in the gay community's little problems, so Lovelace and Valentine set up shop as sleuths, determined to stop the killer before he puts them out of business.

Like the rest of this cracklingly witty, fast-paced series, Slate is set in an exuberantly pre-AIDS world, when to be young, attractive, and the owner of a successful gay bar was a dandy thing indeed. Clarisse has hauled her dainty posterior off to law school, Valentine has opened Boston's grooviest gay boite, Donna Summer is still on the radio, and there's a dead body at the disco: Life doesn't get a whole lot more fun.

Inspector Alleyn has decamped for the South of France for a family vacation. Well, that and a little official poking around. Unfortunately, the object of his poking--the cultish denizens of a sinister and luxurious chateau--are not fond of being poked, and they have a particularly unpleasant way of getting their point across. More a thriller than a whodunit, this is a fresh take for Marsh, while retaining the cleverness and vivid characterizat...

Of all the books in the Alleyn series, Scales of Justice is most powerfully reminiscent of Agatha Christie, with its setting in an almost unspeakably charming little English village, and its cast of inbred aristocrats. When one of the aristos turns up dead next to the local trout-stream--with a trout at his side--everyone is dreadfully upset, but really, just a tad irritated as well: Murder is so awfully messy. Thank gawd that nice Inspector A...

The good ship Cape Farewell is steaming out to sea, with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good. Arguably the up-to-no-goodest is a strangler with a romantic streak: He likes to leave his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. Alleyn boards the Cape at Portsmouth, determined that no one else is going to get strangled on his watch.

It should be a fairly routine job for Henry Gamadge: Examining the papers of a dead poet and playwright with some early promise but not much commercial success. But it's not so much the life and letters as the death of the author (murdered in Central Park) that interests Gamadge. Add in a dead witness and the odd behavior of the family, and Gamadge decides something criminal is afoot.

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