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This list includes mystery fiction that features some kind of African-American sleuth without regard to time period, sex or sexual orientation, or their career status as a professional or amateur sleuth, etc. Please note -- this is a booklist featuring sleuths who are African-American. Not all of the writers are necessarily of African-American heritage themselves! All books in this list which are owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. Some titles not owned by the libraries are included in this list due to their classic nature, or their position as part of a series. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department. |
| Sterling Anthony | Lt. Mary Cunningham -- Cookie Cutter [1999] |
| Nikki Baker | Virginia Kelly -- In the Game [1991] -- Long Goodbyes [1993] |
| John Dudley Ball | Virgil Tibbs -- In the Heat of the Night [1965] -- The Cool Cottontail [1966] -- Johnny Get Your Gun [1969] -- Five Pieces of Jade [1972] -- The Eyes of Buddha [1976] -- The Killing in the Market [1978] -- Then Came Violence [1980] -- Singapore [1986] |
| George Baxt | Pharoah Love -- A Queer Kind of Death [1966] -- Swing Low, Sweet Harriet [1967] -- Topsy and Evil [1968] -- A Queer Kind of Love [1979] -- A Queer Kind of Umbrella [1995] |
| Eleanor Taylor Bland | Marti "Big Mac" MacAlister -- Dead Time [1992] -- Slow Burn [1993] -- Gone Quiet [1994] -- Done Wrong [1995] -- Keep Still [1996] -- See No Evil [1998] -- Tell No Tales [1999] -- Scream in Silence [2000] -- Whispers in the Dark [2001] -- Windy City Dying [2002] -- Fatal Remains [2003] -- A Cold and Silent Dying [2004] -- A Dark and Deadly Deception [2005] |
| Jay Brandon | Rules of Evidence [1992] |
| Charlotte Carter | The Nanette Hayes series Rhode Island Red [1997] Coq au Vin [1999] Drumsticks [2000] Rooster's Riff [2001] The Cook County series Jackson Park [2003] Trip Wire [2005] |
| Christopher Chambers | Sympathy for the Devil [2001] A Prayer for Deliverance [2003] |
| Christopher Darden and Dick Lochte | Trials of Nikki Hill [1999] L.A. Justice [2001] The Last Defense [2002] Lawless [2004] |
| Nora Deloach | The "Mama" series -- Mama Solves a Murder [1994] -- Mama Traps a Killer [1995] -- Mama Saves a Victim [1997 -- Mama Stands Accused [1997] -- Mama Stalks the Past [1997] -- Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle [1998] -- Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows [2000] -- Mama Cracks a Mask of Innocence [2001] |
| Grace Edwards | The Viaduct [2004] Mali Anderson -- If I Should Die [1997] -- A Toast Before Dying [1998] -- No Time to Die [1999] -- Do or Die [2000] |
| Louis Edwards | Aimee DuBois -- N: A Romantic Mystery [1997] |
| Ardella Garland | Georgia Barnett -- Details at Ten [2000] -- Hit Time [2002] |
| Robert O. Greer | Limited Time [2000] C.J. Floyd -- The Devil's Hatband [1996] -- The Devil's Red Nickel [1997] -- The Devil's Backbone [1998] -- Resurrecting Langston Blue [2005] -- The Fourth Perspective [2006] -- The Mongoose Deception [2007] -- Blackbird, Farewell [2008] -- First of State [2010] |
| Barbara Hambly | Emancipator's Wife [2005] (not a Benjamin January novel!) Benjamin January -- A Free Man of Color [1997] -- Fever Season [1998] -- Graveyard Dust [1999] -- Sold Down the River [2000] -- Die Upon a Kiss [2001] -- Wet Grave [2002] -- Days of the Dead [2003] -- Dead Water [2004] -- Dead and Buried [2010] -- The Shirt on His Back [2011] |
| Gary Hardwick | Cold Medina [1996] Double Dead [1997] Supreme Justice [1999] Color of Justice [2000] The Executioner's Game [2005] |
| Chester Himes | Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson -- For Love of Imabelle [1957] -- The Crazy Kill [1959] -- The Real Cool Killers [1959] -- All Shot Up [1960] -- The Big Gold Dream [1960] -- Cotton Comes to Harlem [1965] -- The Heat's On [1966] -- Blind Man With a Pistol [1969] |
| Hugh Holton | Larry Cole -- Presumed Dead [1994] -- Windy City [1995] -- Chicago Blues [1996] -- Violent Crimes [1997] -- Red Lightning [1998] -- Left Hand of God [1999] -- Time of the Assassins [2000] -- The Devil's Shadow [2001] -- Criminal Element [2002] -- The Thin Black Line [2005] |
| Norman Kelley | Nina Halligan -- Big Mango [2000] -- The Black Heat [2001] -- A Phat Death [2003] |
| Jake Lamar | Clay Robinette -- If 6 Were 9 [2001] -- Rendezvous Eighteenth [2003] |
| Glenville Lovell | Blade Overstreet -- Too Beautiful to Die [2003] -- Love and Death in Brooklyn [2004] |
| Ann McMillan | Judah Daniel -- Dead March [1998] -- Angel Trumpet [1999] -- Civil Blood [2001] -- Chickahominy Fever [2004] |
| Penny Mickelbury | Carol Ann Gibson -- One Must Wait [1998] -- Where to Choose [1999] -- The Step Between [2000] -- Paradise Interrupted [2001] |
| Walter Mosley | Easy Rawlins -- Devil in a Blue Dress [1990] -- A Red Death [1991] -- White Butterfly [1992] -- Black Betty [1994] -- A Little Yellow Dog [1996] -- Gone Fishin' [1997] -- Fearless Jones [2001] -- Bad Boy Brawly Brown [2002] -- Fear Itself [2003] -- Little Scarlet [2004] -- Cinnamon Kiss [2005] -- Blonde Faith [2008] Socrates Fortlow -- Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned [1997] -- Walkin' the Dog [1999] -- The Right Mistake [2008] Fearless Jones and Paris Minton -- Fearless Jones [2001] -- Fear Itself [2003] -- Fear of the Dark [2006] Leonid McGill -- The Long Fall [2009] -- Known to Evil [2010] -- When the Thrill is Gone [2011] |
| Barbara Neely | Blanche White -- Blanche on the Lam [1992] -- Blanche Among the Talented Tenth [1994] -- Blanche Cleans Up [1998] -- Blanche Passes Go [2000] |
| P.J. Parrish | Louis Kincaid -- Dark of the Moon [1999] -- Dead of Winter [2001] -- Paint it Black [2002] -- Thicker Than Water [2003] -- Island of Bones [2004] -- Killing Rain [2005] -- Unquiet Grave [2006] -- A Thousand Bones [2007] -- South of Hell [2008] -- The Little Death [2009] |
| Gary Phillips | Ivan Monk -- Violent Spring [1994] -- Perdition U.S.A. [1995] -- Bad Night is Falling [1998] -- Only the Wicked [2000] Martha Chainey -- High Hand [2000] -- Shooter's Point [2001] -- The Perpetrators [2002] |
| Mike Phillips | Sam Dean -- Blood Rights [1989] -- The Late Candidate [1989] -- Point of Darkness [1994] -- An Image to Die For [1995] |
| Ishmael Reed | Papa LaBas -- Mumbo Jumbo [1972] -- The Last Days of Louisiana Red [1974] |
| James Sallis | Lew Griffin -- The Long-Legged Fly [1992] -- Moth [1993] -- Black Hornet [1994] -- Eye of the Cricket [1997] -- Bluebottle [1999] -- Ghost of a Flea [2001] |
| Robert Skinner | Wesley Farrell -- Skin Deep, Blood Red [1997] -- Cat-Eyed Trouble [1999] -- Pale Shadow [2001] |
| Ian Smith | Sterling Bledsoe -- The Blackbird Papers [2004] |
| Pamela Thomas-Graham | Nikki Chase -- A Darker Shade of Crimson [1998] -- Blue Blood [1999] -- Orange Crushed [2004] |
| Ernest Tidyman | Shaft -- Shaft [1970] -- Shaft Among the Jews [1972] |
| Nichelle D. Tramble | The Dying Ground [2001] |
| Blair Underwood | Tennyson Hardwick -- Casanegra [2007] -- In the Heat of the Night [2008] -- From Capetown With Love [2010] |
| Blair S. Walker | Daryl Billups -- Up Jumped the Devil [1997] -- Hidden in Plain View [1999] -- Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes [2002] |
| Valerie Wilson Wesley | Tamara Hayle -- When Death Comes Stealing [1994] -- Devil's Gonna Get Him [1995] -- Where Evil Sleeps [1996] -- No Hiding Place [1997] -- Easier to Kill [1998] -- The Devil Riding [2000] -- Dying in the Dark [2004] -- Of Blood and Sorrow [2008] |
| Paula L. Woods | Charlotte Justice -- Inner City Blues [1999] -- Stormy Weather [2001] -- Dirty Laundry [2003] -- Strange Bedfellows [2006] |
Compiled August 2006 rs
Adapted and expanded for the Web August 2006 sdc / Last updated Feb 2011 sdc
