Black Heat — Norman Kelley

A New York private eye and a former prosecutor who had everything she loved destroyed by a vengeful drug dealer, Nina Halligan is black heat personified.

Decades ago, the Civil Rights movement took a major hit when respected black activist Malik Martin was brutally slain execution-style, driving his beautiful actress-wife Veronica Thorn into a metal institution. Now their grown daughter, Malika, has vanished, and Nina Halligan has been hired to find her. But this is much more than a missing person's case -- as Nina's hunt pulls her deeper into a "McChurch" evangelism, hip-hop nationalism, and NYPD and FBI dirty tricks, where hidden secrets about a terrible crime and a dark past could prove fatal to anyone who gets too curious ...