Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister Lilian's suicide. What caused his once stable, gentle sister to take her o...
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...
In December 1923, Esther Todd was a lovely young pianist, a rising star. One month later, she was on the Most Wanted List. She had vanished along the snowy streets of a stormy night in Harlem and thieves had hit the home of her society patron, pullin...
Lanie Price covers the gritty underside of Harlem’s glamorous high life. A gutsy reporter with a golden heart, she's willing to ask the hard questions. She’ll go anywhere, talk to anyone, to get her story. So when Lanie revisits the mystery of a ...
Lanie Price, a 1920s Harlem society columnist, witnesses the brutal nightclub kidnapping of the "Black Orchid," a sultry, seductive singer with a mysterious past. Price, a female 1920s version of Dominick Dunne, soon finds herself elbows-deep in a st...
A sweeping tale of old loves and festering hatreds, this story will plunge you into the glittering world of the Harlem Renaissance, from the wealthy salons of its movers and shakers to the crowded tenements of its poor. Years earlier, David McK...
For 1920's society reporter Lanie Price, the photographer found shot through the eye in the back of his studio isn't just another story. It's personal.On a dank night in September, Lanie is called to the scene of a grisly double murder. The victims: ...
The murder of a close friend always brings heartbreak and chills the soul. For Lanie Price, it also raises questions—ones that demand answers. Vera Kincaid had everything to live for. The wife of a wealthy preacher man, she was smart, beau...
The Festive Mayhem mystery and crime fiction anthology is back for another year! In this fourth edition, thirteen crime writers of color have teamed up to offer you a baker's dozen of brand-new short stories centered around the winter holidays. From ...
“Un omicidio commesso in seno all’alta borghesia nera, un esaltante racconto di un’epoca ormai terminata… un ricco, vibrante ritratto di quel tempo leggendario in cui il battito del cuore di Harlem rappresentava il ritmo dell...