African American Fiction Mystery

A city full of lies, deceit, and cold-blooded murder, Detroit plays widow to drug cartel after drug cartel, and the Last Kings are the latest to take over the throne. It seems that nothing can crumble their empire, but when an unexpected series of events take place and blood is shed, everything spirals out of control. Can Sadie and Mocha survive the game as the head women in charge, or will disloyalty and treachery threaten to end them for good?

Although she plans to go far enough away to break free from the streets, Secret may need a Plan B when her estranged father comes back into the picture. Secret is willing to forgive and forget the fact that her father robbed her of being a daddy's girl by not being in her life. In fact, she welcomes him with open arms. But when he sets her up for a fall in which the landing could break her very being, she doesn't know if she'll ever be able to trust men again.

Gone Like Yesterday follows two Black women—Zahra, a listless college prep coach, and Sammie, a teenage girl and budding activist soon off to college—who are drawn to each other through the songs of gypsy moths. Gypsy moths have been singing the songs of Zahra’s ancestors to her for years, so when Zahra realizes that Sammie might be a moth person too, their paths become intertwined. Then, the unthinkable happens: Zahra’s brother, Derrick, goes missing.

Dmytryk Knight was a respectable man who had followed the blueprints for the American Dream: go to college, find the girl of your dreams, get married, buy a house on the affluent side of Detroit. He’d done it all by the book. But when a crippling recession annihilates the auto industry, Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, suddenly find themselves without jobs and in foreclosure. And after two years of taking any job they can find and trying to live honestly, they realize that integrity just doesn’t pay the bills.

Pastor Paul Mitchell is a humble baptist minister who preaches the word of God. China Reynolds is a mega songstress known around the world. David Parks is a talented pro athlete in the sports arena. The three characters must seek out God when their normal lifestyles become disrupted by various trials and tribulations before them.

Shari dreamed of the day she would get her diploma and be the first in her family to earn her bachelor's degree. She's an average college student, into her books and adored by her boyfriend, Neil. Shari knew that the college experience would prepare, and open her up to a whole new world. She wasn't prepared for what she found. Shari's world becomes a haze as past and present collide, altering her grasp on what's real and what's not. As Shari fights to get answers and attempt to keep hold of her sanity, her world as she knows it, has become, Shari's Crossing.

Banks Wales can’t catch a break. After losing his son in a failed prison escape scheme, Banks is immediately forced to deal with the stowaways on his plane - Mason and his family. Forced to take them to his private island, he is immediately greeted by Whoyawanmetabe, the mystery man who did odd jobs for him back in America.

After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces their enslaved ancestors would gather to pray. Jeremiah Prince, alongside his sister Nova, are leaders of the revolution, but have ideological differences regarding how the movement should proceed.

As a low-level enforcer in Los Angeles, Ken Swift knows danger, but nowhere does he feel it more than in his tangled romances. Divorced from one woman, in love with another, and wrestling with a strong desire to get to know a third, his life is far from perfect, and it becomes all the more complicated when his troubled daughter resurfaces on the same day as a major job.

Mia Stewart is a beautiful and successful madam with all the wisdom for her call girls, Keke and Sierra, but not using her own advice to survive in the entanglement of love with her married lover, Mario Wellington. Her so-called friends are supposed to have her back, but they have their own hidden agendas and secrets. Mia enters a world where sex can give you anything: power, money, self-entitlement. Then she realizes the fast life will get you caught up in a whirlwind of betrayal, lies, and misfortune. She mysteriously escapes death on one or more occasions. Was it luck or a curse? With ...

As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos Aires has recovered from the mayhem caused during Gideon's last job. But before the dust has settled and the bodies have been buried, Gideon calls in backup - including the lovely Hawks, with whom Gideon has heated memories - to launch his biggest act of revenge yet...one he believes will destroy his adversary, Midnight, once and for all.

Connoisseurs of edgy, contemporary African- American fiction find the novels of Wallace Ford prime offerings. In this riveting sequel to Ford's The Pride, a powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners' money, he's been living fast, but losing even faster.

His boat came in, but Denise Martine’s husband, Charles, wasn’t on it. Almost a year later, with his death still a mystery, Denise retreats to their vacation home on Kiawah Island to begin to sort out his affairs and her feelings amongst a group of her friends, only to be confronted with the mystery he left behind. Although she must go on, Denise feels as if something is not quite right with her husband's mysterious disappearance. Her suspicions are compounded as an old flame from college shows up and begins to poke around in what Denise considers to be a very private matter.

Lieutenant Stuart Lyons is a single father and a well-respected veteran law enforcement officer. In addition, he serves as head of security at the ever-popular New Hope Church in Atlanta and above all, he loves the Lord. When sudden pandemonium strikes his “normal” life and he begins receiving threats from an unknown person who only identifies himself as “Dr. A. H. Satan”, Stuart’s life is turned upside down.

Abraham and Abigail head out to a cabin in the woods for their all-expense paid, secluded honeymoon for seven days. They are prepared for a blissful week of enjoying their first days as husband and wife. Their first night there, strange things begin to happen because Abraham is unknowingly at a crossroads with his past. He must make the decision once and for all to live for God. His arrogance has finally caught up with him and he begins to literally be haunted by his past transgressions.

Dawn and Reese Spencer just can't get ahead. Between her desperate desire to start a family and his gambling debts, they barely keep afloat, even with well-paying Norfolk International port jobs. But their calculating co-worker has the perfect plan: help him smuggle containers of precious, illegal - human - cargo past US Customs. Reese persuades Dawn that no one will get hurt. Then several immigrants turn up dead on arrival. Now the Feds and cold-blooded loan sharks are closing in, as the real brains behind the operation start killing off loose ends.

ONE TOUCH CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. As the subservient wife of an adulterous husband, Lady Eren knows how to hide her real feelings. Only once in her life did she feel like herself: on the night she unearthed a mysterious idol, with the help of her new stepson, Lane. Turns out Lane remembers that night just as clearly… albeit for different reasons. Eren was only twenty when she married his cheating father, and she has haunted his teenage dreams ever since. Now, ten years later, Lane’s been called home to marry… and the still-gorgeous Eren is playing his matchmaker. If that wasn’t ...

Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the highest bidder.

Savannah Grant closed Secure International, Inc., because the FBI is still probing her company to find evidence on corruption to take her down. She discovers someone has stolen her father’s art collection which is a legacy of paintings. She teams up with local Cleveland upscale business owners to help make her Golden Ticket Gala a huge success and take down the people who betrayed her. Her brother Sergio’s mistress Lacey Gold plays both sides to secure her bag because he took her for granted. Myles Sutton has his own deep secrets when things don’t go according to plan, he spreads his ...

This rescue is a matter of life or death for everyone. Will Grace be found before it’s too late, or will Jason come to his senses and let her go? Wilson and Michael are desperate to get the women they love back home at any cost. How will the couples deal when their secrets are exposed? The Johnson family’s past and present will be uncovered by Detective Sanford as he hits the streets to find Janice. The FBI finds a few answers and clues that will change lives forever. Tragedy will either bring people you love closer or rip them apart. Families, friends, and couples’ relations will be ...