Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-20379-5
Don't be put off by the dark, forbidding cover of this latest thriller in Bland's popular Marti MacAlister series, because the story is gripping from the opening sentence through its chilling final scene. African-American detective Marti and
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30097-5
African-American police detective Marti MacAlister is used to "simple" murders, not ones whose roots are as old and entwined with history as those she encounters in Bland's 11th meaty mystery (after 2002's Windy City Dying
). Set in...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-32665-4
As usual, Bland tightly fuses Marti MacAlister's personal life with a crime investigation in the 12th eventful outing for the black homicide detective, who must contend with an old nemesis from 2001's Whispers in the Dark
. Marti's best...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-312-32667-8
Unspoken fears, guilty secrets and divisions between rich and poor serve as the unsettling backdrop for Bland's well-crafted 13th Marti MacAlister mystery (after 2004's A Cold and Silent Dying
), set in Lincoln Prairie, Ill. When the body of
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-312-20378-8
A relentless arsonist, an elusive bomber, a puzzling murder--this burst of unrestrained mayhem in Lincoln Prairie, Ill., has Afro-American police detective Marti MacAlister and her partner, Vik Jessenovick, exhausted and perplexed. Virginia McCroft,
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-312-07053-3
An auspicious debut, this gritty procedural introduces Marti MacAlister, a black woman detective in Lincoln Prairie, Ill., near Chicago. The Cramer Hotel, a local flophouse, becomes the scene of a crime when Lauretta Dorsey, a schizophrenic who had...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-312-09237-5
The remains of a burned-out medical clinic yield the bodies of the Latino receptionist and an unidentified pregnant 12-year-old as Bland ( Dead Time ) begins the second mystery to feature black woman cop Marti MacAlister. As in the first book,...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-312-11018-5
Detective Marti MacAlister, the only black woman on the Lincoln Prairie, Ill., police force, and her white male partner Vik Jessenovik have overcome the tensions that troubled them in Dead Time and Slow Burn . The death of an elderly black man...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-312-13053-4
Introduced in Dead Time (1992), widow Marti MacAlister is a moral and tenacious, middle-class black policewoman. In her fourth appearance, the former Chicago cop, now a homicide detective in a northern suburb, investigates the mysterious death three
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14318-3
Unrelated murder cases plague Lincoln Prairie, Ill., police detective Marti MacAlister in her fifth outing (following Done Wrong, 1995). Elderly Sophie Admunds's demise looks accidental until the medical examiner's report finds oil on her shoes and...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20067-1
African-American police detective Marti MacAlister and her Polish-American partner, Vic, turn introspective in the seventh volume of Bland's popular series (See No Evil, etc.). Both Chicago detectives are intrigued when the mummified corpse of a...
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Eleanor Taylor Bland, Author, E. Bland, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30098-2
Bland's 10th mystery to feature African-American detective Marti MacAlister (after 2001's Whispers in the Dark) provides plenty of family interest but is a bit light on police procedure. Marti and her husband, Ben, have relocated to Lincoln...
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