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Alex Cross novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross and his new girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone search for a gruesome serial killer in Washington D.C. who is a genius at terror and is after the fame
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross must face the world's most dangerous agents, criminals, and assassins. The fate of the world rests in his hands.
In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims...
In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross races against time as a series of crimes stuns Washington, D. C.—and he might be facing his most brilliant enemy yet.
In a series of terrifying crimes, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building-and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary...
In a series of terrifying crimes, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building-and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. When the elusive killer's trail turns up in Africa, Alex knows that he must follow alone
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Join Alex Cross on his most terrifying murder case yet in this #1 New York Times bestseller and one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads."
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever....
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever....
6) Cat & mouse
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Gary Soneji, a prison escapee, joins forces with the enigmatic "Mr. Smith," psychologist-detective Alex Cross' life hangs in the balance, and it is up to serial killer expert Thomas Augustine Pierce to step in before it is too late.
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing--but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.rget.
Author
Series
Barrett Raines mystery novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The first appearance of Barrett Raines in A Rock and a Hard Place added an intelligent and extraordinarily engaging black policeman to the short roster of leading Afro-American fictional detectives.
At the end of A Rock and a Hard Place, Raines is so torn by the conflicts he faced that he's gone into an emotional tailspin. While trying to save himself from depression Raines gets a new case. It involves the discovery of a mysterious stranger's body...
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Barrett Raines is a black detective on an isolated police force in Deacon Beach, a sweltering enclave on the Gulf Coast of northwestern Florida. Barrett's worked all his career to live up to the faith Romana Walker, Deacon Beach's eternal Homecoming Queen, showed in him when she pushed Barrett onto the all-white force in the face of local and bigoted opposition. Seven years later, Raines has made a place for himself and his schoolteacher wife in the...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered math teacher in a private school. He is also the psychopathic serial killer that Alex Cross has ben hired to find.
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect...
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Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
16) Jack and Jill
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The murder of a controversial U.S. senator by a pair called Jack and Jill begins a series of Washington, D.C. killings that homicide detective Alex Cross must investigate.
18) Blazing saddles
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town
Author
Language
English
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Description
Relates how African American detective Ron Stallworth went undercover to investigate the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs in 1978, describing how he disrupted Klan activities and exposed white supremacists in the military during the months-long investigation.
"The extraordinary true story of a black police officer who goe undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the forthcoming major motion picture directed by Spike Lee and produced by Jordan...
20) The black and the blue: a cop reveals the crimes, racism, and injustice in America's law enforcement
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A CNN contributor and former law enforcement officer offers a personal account of the racism, crimes, and color lines that challenge America's police, sharing insights into high-profile cases, the Black Lives Matter movement, and what is needed for change.
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