Featured Title for March: Spring Break!

Spring Break By Kayla Perrin

“Help me . . .”

These are the last words Chanetelle hears from her friend Ashley, in a static-filled phone call that soon goes dead. Their trip to the island paradise of Artula started the way any trip should, and soon Chanetelle and her friends find themselves in sun-drenched days and party-hopping nights. The vacation is not without its conflicts, however, and old rivalries and new jealousies come to light as the week passes. But no one expects things to turn as ugly as they do. No one expects that they won’t all return. And no one expects that murder might be the ultimate souvenir.

When Ashley disappears, the question is asked: Was it a random act of violence? Or is something more sinister going on? And is Ashley really dead, after all?

With a breakneck pace and cat-and-mouse twists, Spring Break is the ultimate beach read.

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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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