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61) Titans
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart--but when Astrid's new friends give her the chance to participate in this year's Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together....
62) Duplicity
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington Hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Detroit crime reporter Julia Gooden struggles to overcome past demons and support a high-profile case against a drug trafficker who has orchestrated a bombing that has left Julia's assistant district attorney husband critically injured.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities, and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. It tells how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse--from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to 714,000 only six decades later--resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deep, thick seams of racism. And it raises the question:...
65) Boys come first
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Three Black, gay, Millennial men search for love and professional success in Detroit while navigating real friendships, Grindr hookups and family drama.
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English
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"In 1958 Detroit, on Alder Avenue, neighbors struggle to care for neighbors amid a city ripe with conflicts that threaten their peaceful street. Grace, Alder's only expectant mother, eagerly awaits her first born. Best friend Julia prepares to welcome twin nieces. And Malina sets the tone with her stylish dresses, tasteful home, and ironfisted stewardship of St. Alban's bake sale. Life erupts when childlike Elizabeth disappears while in the care of...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral...
68) The court
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In William J. Coughlin's The Court, the fourth Charley Sloan Courtroom Thriller, nine Supreme Court judges will soon decide four history-making cases. Eight of them will split along party lines four to four. The ninth judge, holding the swing vote, will tip the scales of justice. He's a good man, a fine man, and, unknown to nearly everyone, a dying man-barely kept alive by machines in a very private hospital.
High-powered Washington attorney Jerry...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Detroit 1936: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, baseball fan Dayton Dean is arrested for murder. Though said to have a childlike intelligence, Dean possesses a vivid memory and a hunger for attention. He gives police a story about a secret Klan-like organization called the Black Legion, responsible for countless murders, floggings, and fire bombings. The Legion has tens of thousands of members in the Midwest, among them politicians...
70) Unknown man #89
Author
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"No one is Leonard's equal," declares the Chicago Tribune -- and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard's riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89 , to become a true believer. The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing stockholder leads him into more serious peril than he ever imagined possible, Unknown Man #89 is a gourmet stew of mystery, suspense, and double and triple cross, peppered with the...
71) Daddy Cool
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Language
English
Description
To his clients, Larry Jackson is known as "Daddy Cool." Nobody's better at what he does. Nothing knocks him off his game. With ice in his veins, he'll pull the trigger or stick a knife deep. All that matters is he gets paid--and that his teenage daughter, Janet, stays clear of the streets. But when Janet is lured into the stable of a young, smooth-talking pimp, Daddy Cool sees red--and goes into action deadly cold and unstoppable.--Publisher's description....
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English
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Description
Joseph Michael Ballista- "Joey Ballistic" to his mob buddies, knows most of the ways to make an illegal buck, or a "left-handed dollar." That's why he's in trouble again. But his crafty lawyer, Lucille Lettermore, "Lefty Lucy" to just about every prosecutor she's ever humiliated in court, is determined to free him by getting all his previous convictions set aside, starting with one for attempted murder.
When she hires Detroit private detective Amos...
73) Beautiful music
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio-loving loner balancing a dysfunctional homelife with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence."--
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The Snowman's Children is a poignant, psychologically intense first novel that tells the story of an incident from one man's childhood in the 1970s, when a serial killer called The Snowman stalked the streets of suburban Detroit.
The incident, a result of good but woefully misguided juvenile intentions, forced his family to leave their home, and eventually forced him, at age twenty-nine, to return to his hometown in search of three old friends.
Reminiscent...
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Readers will be turning the pages into the wee hours of the night, trying to solve the mystery along with Tully and Koesler. -West Coast Review of Books Has the Detroit Police Department found the perpetrator of one of the most gruesome serial murders in Detroit's history-the brutal mutilation of prostitutes? Father Robert Koesler has a special interest in solving one of the most challenging cases in his career. In this tenth Kienzle mystery, Koesler-Detroit's...
76) Dirty for me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel "Zee" Chase has a complicated past. Born into a family whose wealth grew from the seedy world of big-time crime, he ran away as a teenager and made a home for himself on the streets of Detroit. By day, the mechanic works at a local garage. But by night, he throws down with the best of them in Detroit's gritty underground fighting scene. With all those muscles, he's never had trouble with women--until he meets one who challenges him to the...
77) Grievers
Author
Series
Black dawn volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dune's mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks -- in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life -- casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit's hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it, following in the...
78) Black gangster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A story of black organized crime follows Prince from his beginning as a teenage ganglord to his position as head of Detroit's powerful mob.
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary tale of justice and morality . . . -Otto Penzler, Edgar Award Winner and Owner of the Mysterious Bookshop, New York City "... another dandy tale of homicide with an ecclesiastic twist . . . a fast-moving plot with amusing sidelights." -New York Daily News "Every time I open a book, I hope this one is going to be really smashing, exciting, outstanding. This one is. Death Wears a Red Hat is the kind of mystery that I read the others...
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