Too Dark City, a neo-noir novel, set in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1948, features a black detective, Moses Webb, and his side kick, Harry Martensen, a radioman and photographer.As a detective with the Kalamazoo Police, Moses Webb was shot in the left arm and shoulder during a drugstore robbery, forcing him to resign from the force.Now divorced, Moses works as a second-shift auto mechanic. As a favor, he investigates Marvin Simmons, a teenage basketball phenom. The police and pr...

Dark Double Cross is the second novel in the Moses Webb - Northside Neighborhood Investigator trilogy. This time he is doing a favor for his adopted son Marvin Simmons who has finished law school and has opened his own law office.Moses is fifteen years older, slower, married to Eileen and setting limits for his thirteen year old daughter Patricia. Moses is roped into performing a big favor for his adopted son Marvin Simmons. Marvin, a former KCHS basketball phenom once arrested for...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Too Dark City, a neo-noir novel, set in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1948, features a black detective, Moses Webb, and his side kick, Harry Martensen, a radioman and photographer.As a detective with the Kalamazoo Police, Moses Webb was shot in the left arm and shoulder during a drugstore robbery, forcing him to resign from the force.Now divorced, Moses works as a second-shift auto mechanic. As a favor, he investigates Marvin S...

From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation.Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musici...

Rabbi Small returns in this New York Times –bestselling novel to investigate a mysterious death on the Day of Atonement—from the Edgar Award–winning author.The day before Yom Kippur, the synagogue sound system is on the blink, the floral arrangements are in disarray, and a member of Rabbi David Small's congregation—in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing—is terribly concerned with how much a Torah weighs. The rabb...

The rabbi looks into a professor's death in the New York Times –bestselling series that's "the American equivalent of the British cozy" ( Booklist ).Edgar Award–Winning AuthorRetired from his job at the synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, Rabbi Small now teaches Judaic studies at a Boston college. Finally able to enjoy theological contemplatio...

Can he trust his client's dreams and visions-even when they threaten to destroy his future?Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail-accused of robbing a church and knowing things he has no right to know. A lawyer turned pastor-suddenly summoned to a stranger's cell by a dream.How much will one man risk to defend another, when the truth lands him in prison...and the only evidence proving his innocence comes b...

Billy Hipp, more commonly referred to as Blind Billy Hipp although he wasn't fully blind, has spent eons regretting the actions of his youth. Now, he devotes his time to being the best damn Searcher in the area. An expensive Searcher who expects to be paid for what he does. What he doesn't expect is to have someone with more cash than sense, turn up on his doorstep and insist on using his talents no matter how much every one of Billy's senses is telling him to run in the other direction. L...

Eleven years ago, amidst scandal, sin, and shattered lives, Michael English fell from the pinnacle of the Christian music world. In 1994, newspapers around the world blared the headline, "Gospel Singer Named Artist of the Year Turns in His Awards After Confirming He Had an Affair with a Fellow Married Singer." From 1994 to 2002 Michael English's life went from bad to worse. Public shame, divorce, broken relationships, drug addiction, even homelessness. But in 2002, God reached out and resc...

**Former quarterback turned Edgar-winning author Eli Cranor throws a glorious game winner in this series debut starring a rookie FBI agent who finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empire—and the bloody greed that fuels it.“Former college quarterback Eli Cranor scores big with Mississippi Blue 42, a fun, provocative crime novel that takes aim at the heart of the American game.”—Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of An Hon...

Confront murder, mayhemand your own mysteries of being.From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this unique collection of mysteries will enlighten you at the same time it intrigues and entertains.While featuring enough death and deception to keep the detective protagonists on their toes, ...

Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul.He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can’t stay. His saving grace is handball; it’s his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and abandoned by trusted elders, family, and friends. Even as Zev never full...