Darryl Wimberley

A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery

1 - A Rock and a Hard Place (Jul-1999)
2 - Dead Man's Bay (Jul-2000)
3 - Strawman's Hammock (Nov-2001)
4 - Pepperfish Keys (Jul-2007)
5 - Devil's Slew (Mar-2011)

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  A Rock and a Hard Place
  

  • Jul-1999
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery - 1
  

  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 ...

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  Dead Man's Bay
  

  • Jul-2000
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery - 2
  

  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...

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  A Tinker's Damn
  

  • Oct-2000
  • / Suspense
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  A Depression-era land battle in the Florida panhandle forms the gritty backdrop for Wimberly's evocative coming-of-age novel. At its outset, in 1929, an African-American worker named Saint McGrue dies in a lumber-clearing accident. McGrue's son, Spen...

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  Strawman's Hammock
  

  • Nov-2001
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery - 3
  

  On a chilly October morning, Barrett "Bear" Raines finds himself on the campground of Linton Loyd, one of the richest men in Florida, watching Linton clean his latest catch. Barrett does not understand why he, an African-American detective for the F...

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  Pepperfish Keys
  

  • Jul-2007
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery - 4
  

  There is a Florida that has nothing to do with Disney World. Nothing to do with palm trees or Holiday Inns. Tourists are neither courted nor coddled in this Florida, and you can go a hundred miles and never find a golden arch. So says author Darr...

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  Kaleidoscope
  

  • Sep-2008
  • / Suspense
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  Devil's Slew
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery - 5
  

  Special Agent Barrett "Bear" Raines of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has his Little League game interrupted when a returning GI uses Bear and the local sheriff to commit suicide-by-cop. Barrett agonizes over the young man's death. He k...

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  PAUL BUNYAN
  

  • May-2017
  • / General Fiction
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  A Seeping Wound
  

  • May-2017
  • / Historical
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  Post Facto
  

  • Nov-2018
  • / Thriller
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  When Clara Sue Buchanan gave up big-city journalism to buy her Southern hometown newspaper, she was determined to ferret out the truth in whatever story that came along. What came were high school football games, the locals' catch of the day, and fam...

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Award-Winning Books by Darryl Wimberley

The King of Colored Town
2007 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction -- Fiction