Mystery News

Author Pamela Samuels-Young's latest legal thriller, Buying Time, has won the 2010 BCALA Literary Award for Best Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library. Click here for more details.

Crime writer R. Barri Flowers has signed a three-book deal with Urban Books for three suspense novels to be written under the name Devon Vaughn Archer. Click here for more details.

Author Gar Anthony Haywood was interviewed in the February issue of the International Thriller Writer’s publication The Big Thrill about his new novel Cemetery Road. Click here for interview.

Author Attica Locke’s debut novel Black water Rising has been nominated for an Edgar Award for best first novel by the Mystery Writer’s of America.

The Fall of Heaven, the play adapted by best-selling author Walter Mosley from his novel Tempest Tales, opened at Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park on January 23rd and will run until to February 20. Click here for more details.

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Featured Title for February: Cemetery Road!

Cemetery Road by Gar Anthony Haywood

The new novel from a critically acclaimed and award-winning author - When Errol ‘Handy’ White returns to his native Los Angeles to attend the funeral of his old friend R.J. Burrow, who has been brutally murdered, a terrible secret threatens to reveal itself. Twenty-six years earlier, Handy, R.J. and O’Neal Holden pulled a heist that went horrible awry, and Handy’s been waiting for it to come back and haunt them ever since. Was the murder linked to the past? Handy knows he can’t leave until he finds out for sure.

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NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEES

Outstanding Literary Work-Fiction
"The Long Fall" Walter Mosley (Riverhead Books)

Outstanding Literary Work-Debut
"Black Water Rising" Attica Locke (Harper)

Congratulations & Good Luck!

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Featured Title For January: Schooled In Lies!

Schooled In Lies By Angela Henry

GED instructor Kendra Clayton’s high school days were nothing to brag about. So she’s not too thrilled when on top of having to take a class to renew her teaching certificate or be fired, she gets roped into serving on her high school’s reunion committee.

Spending time with her former classmates is even less fun than having a root canal. Then to make matters worse, Kendra and the other committee members start receiving strange messages and having freak accidents. When one of the accidents results in a death, Kendra is convinced it’s murder. Unfortunately, neither the reunion committee nor the police take her seriously.

To try and prevent another death—and to keep from worrying about all the time her sweetie, Carl, has been spending with his scheming ex-wife—Kendra digs into the lives of her fellow committee members and uncovers enough secrets, lies, and betrayal to make her head spin. When a second murder occurs, Kendra realizes she needs to watch her back in her search for the truth before a killer turns her into another buried secret.

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Featured Title For December: The Morning Show Murders

Network TV can be murder. Just ask Billy Blessing, famous for his smile, charm, and ability to survive the shark tank that is high-stakes morning TV. But though Billy has outlived his fair share of prima-donnas, his cooking segment on Wake Up America! is a staple of the American diet, and his Manhattan bistro is a mega-success, his career has just taken a very dangerous turn: His show’s perky cohost, Gin McCauley, has launched into some brass-knuckles contract negotiations. A visiting Mossad agent is about to tell all on the air. And then the network’s head honcho is murdered in his luxury apartment, and an ambitious D.A. decides that Billy is to blame.

Forensics show that Gerry Gallagher was poisoned and that the fatal coq au vin came from Billy’s restaurant. Gerry had an impressive list of women in his black book—and a news assignment in Afghanistan had plunged the TV exec into the heart of a violent international secret. Now unsavory characters are coming out of the woodwork, and another murder strikes the show’s inner circle. Billy knows that someone’s trying to frame him. He also knows that a ruthless international assassin has just arrived in New York City. And suddenly, for the most trusted guy on TV the ultimate career move is not about ratings. It’s about staying alive—and stopping the next murder from becoming tomorrow’s breaking news.

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