Paula L. Woods

A Charlotte Justice Novel

1 - Inner City Blues (Jan-1999)
2 - Stormy Weather (Aug-2001)
3 - Dirty Laundry (Jul-2003)
4 - Strange Bedfellows (Jan-2006)

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  Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes
  

  • Oct-1995
  • / General Fiction
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  >Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes is "a fascinating guide to black mystery fiction and its subgenres from early in the century to the present" (Emerge magazine). Within these pages Paula L. Woods has gathered an outstanding array of new, long-lost, or...

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  Inner City Blues
  

  • Jan-1999
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Charlotte Justice Novel - 1
  

  As an African-American woman in the predominantly white-male LAPD, homicide detective Charlotte Justice knows about heat. But now, thanks to twelve decent, pro-police jurors in Simi Valley, Los Angeles is a city rife with fires and riots. Forty-eight...

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  Stormy Weather
  

  • Aug-2001
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Charlotte Justice Novel - 2
  

  Despite her education and training, Charlotte Justice has concluded that being a black female in the Los Angeles Police Department is no day at the beach. Instead, the elite homicide detective's days are filled with incompetence, bigotry, and the may...

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  Dirty Laundry
  

  • Jul-2003
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Charlotte Justice Novel - 3
  

  For Charlotte and her team, the case begins when a woman's body is found in L.A.'s Koreatown district, where a series of robberies and murders has already put besieged merchants on edge. Now the spectacle of a bright, successful young Korean woman fo...

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  Strange Bedfellows
  

  • Jan-2006
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Charlotte Justice Novel - 4
  

  In LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice, acclaimed crime writer Paula L. Woods has created a heroine for our times. Caught between her proud African American family and colleagues who still can't deal with diversity, Detective Justice returns to...

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  Divine Droplets
  

  in The Blue Religion

  • Apr-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  WHAT IS IT LIKE TO CORNER A MURDERER? TO UNMASK A HIDDEN KILLER? In The Blue Religion, bestselling author Michael Connelly brings together nineteen original stories from some of today's greatest crime writers to reveal the thrills and dangers of b...

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Award-Winning Books by Paula L. Woods

Inner City Blues
2000 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award -- First Novel
2000 Macavity Award -- First Mystery