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2) Babysitter
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...
3) Sin for me
Author
Series
Motor City Royals volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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...
4) 52 pickup
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately, someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn't pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder -- up to and including homicide, if necessary. But the psychos picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam. Because...
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detroit 2030. Double-crossed by the person she loved and betrayed by the covert government organization that trained her to use her body as a weapon, Peri Reed is a renegade on the run. Don't forgive and never forget has always been Peri's creed. But her day job makes it difficult: she is a drafter, possessed of a rare, invaluable skill for altering time, yet destined to forget both the history she changed and the history she rewrote. When Peri discovers...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Despite pleas from her mother, the upper-middle-class teenager Kapri James is addicted to "slumming" and living the fast life with hardcore criminal Nolan White, known citywide as a shooter, acting as a hood Bonnie to his gangster Clyde, and together often causing the streets to run red.
Despite pleas from her mother, upper-middle-class teenager Kapri James is addicted to "slumming". Now she's living the fast life with hardcore criminal Nolan White,...
7) Grievers
Author
Series
Black dawn (brown) volume 1
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the...
8) Wrong for me
Author
Series
Motor City Royals volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Using the ruthlessness gleaned from eight years in prison to manipulate the woman he loves into accepting him, Levi blackmails tattoo artist Rachel at the risk of her business before their fiery chemistry proves stronger than their wills or secrets.
9) Dirty for me
Author
Series
Motor City Royals volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Zee" Chase has a complicated past. Born into a family whose wealth grew from the seedy world of big-time crime, he ran away as a teenager and made a home for himself on the streets of Detroit. By day, the mechanic works at a local garage. But by night, he throws down with the best of them in Detroit's gritty underground fighting scene. With all those muscles, he's never had trouble with women--until he meets one who challenges him to the...
Author
Series
Nora Watts novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts—introduced in the "utterly compelling" (Jeffery Deaver) atmospheric thriller The Lost Ones—finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit.
Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent—her father. When he killed
...Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Givens is offered two choices. He can either retire or finish his career on the fugitive task force in the crime-ridden precincts of Detroit. Acting on a tip, Raylan and his new partner, deputy marshal Bobby Torres arrest Jose Rindo, a destructive and violent criminal. Rindo is also being pursued by the FBI who arrive shortly after he is in custody. Raylan...
Author
Series
The good life volume part 3
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"All his life, young Saw listened to his mom tell him how much he looked like and acted like Wink, the man she claimed was his father. Wink was a hood legend who ran the city in the late eighties and early nineties. Saw's mother is convinced that he too will end up in a cell beside his father and grandfather--both doing life in the feds. Saw never met Wink since he's been in prison for twenty years, but even if he wasn't locked up, there's no guarantee...
14) Lives laid away
Author
Series
August Snow novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a prominent advocate for undocumented immigrants, recognizes...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After facing the wrath of Madame, sisters Rhonnie and Ahli Malone take on the job of being security detail for none other than Sadie Thomas, the head of The Last Kings. With a new drug, Vita E Morte, doing numbers under her belt, it is apparent that Sadie has plans to distribute it all over the United States. But after seeing the deadly side effects of the drug, Sadie agrees to get rid of the formula and take it off the market for good. Only somebody...
Author
Series
Payback novels volume 3
Publisher
Cash Money Content
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Briggen, a man leading a double life, wants to know who killed his brother, Forever. He wants revenge but it's only a matter of time before Briggen's own lies catch up with him. Nick is back in the big 'D' and ready to take over the game. The only thing standing in his way is a buried secret from his past that is about to come back to haunt him. It's only a matter of time before ambitions and secrets collide and revenge goes a step too far. In this...
Author
Series
Out for self novels volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"Terrell wasn't raised in the corrupt streets of Detroit. After being abused and left for dead by his violent, psychotic father, he was raised by his aunt in uncle in a loving home in the suburbs. However, he never lost touch with his mother, whose selfish scheming sparked the fire that led to that fateful night when Terrell became disabled. Now that he's an adult, his tainted bloodline has other plans for the wheelchair-bound teenager. Throwing away...
19) Graveyard love
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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,...
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