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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...
83) 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...
84) 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...
85) 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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson's friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will's hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes him constant pain, forcing him into a morphine addiction. He lives for nothing except revenge against the people who contributed to Wesley's murder--first among them crime boss...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancée, Elizabeth. He's barely kept his job at his father's company---Detroit Electric, 1910's leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth's new fiancé and Will's one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. He finds Cooper dead, crushed in a huge hydraulic roof press. Surprised by the police, Will panics and runs, leaving behind his...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Detroit is known for its automotive heritage, the Motown sound, and American's first mile of concrete highway. But this city on the river has more than three hundred years of history, and most of it is easy to experience if you know where to look. There's the Michigan Theatre, the ornate movie house turned parking garage with a grand stage looming over its cars. Picturesque Alfred Brush Ford Park has the remnants of missile radar towers that connected...
91) The gathering
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 24
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The Gathering was the twenty-fourth in Kienzle's series of mysteries, featuring Father Robert Koesler as a Roman Catholic priest whose intuitiveness and caring nature have led him to an unusual calling: solving mysteries, mostly of the murderous kind. In this entry, revisit Koesler's adolescent and teen years, to a time when young Catholic men and women were encouraged, even expected, to become priests and nuns, whether or not their vocation was real....
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Forge edition.
Language
English
Description
A gripping new novel in the three-time Shamus Award-winning Amos Walker series.
The New York Times calls Amos Walker a "streetwise indestructible tiger with an ethical code that keeps him with the good guys." In a sharp new thriller, Detroit's most savvy private eye is up to his neck in international drug-smuggling, hit squads, double-identities, music-industry gangsters, and a client who's nothing but trouble.
Gilia Cristobal is a singer with a...
93) Robocop
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a good cop gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "Robocop." Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, Robocop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new, hardened exterior, Robocop is tormented by scraps of memory of...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including jazz, blues, doo-wop, Motown, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, and techno. Detroit artists have forged the paths in many of these genres, producing waves of creative energy that continue to reverberate across the country and around the world. While documenting and celebrating this part of Detroit's history, this book captures the emotions that the music inspired in its creators and in...
Author
Series
Father Koesler mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Kienzle's are the best books ever written about a cleric and among the best of everything in the past quarter century. -Otto Penzler, in Mystery Magazine "There are few authors whose books a reader anticipates from the moment he finished the last effort. . . . Add William Kienzle to the list." -Dallas Times Herald "Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -Baltimore Sun In the fourth Father Koesler thriller, William X. Kienzle proved his versatility....
97) Brazen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nick Sorrentino knows everyone in the supernatural world considers him the Pack's playboy, the pretty but not very useful werewolf whose only reputation usually involves his amorous exploits. Usually, Nick couldn't care less what anyone outside of the pack thinks of him, but when it affects his hunt for Malcolm Danvers, a psychotic bogeyman from the pack's past, it matters. Necessity forces Nick to team up with mercenary half-demon Vanessa Callas...
98) Mind over murder
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
Bill Kienzle's best yet. -Detroit Free Press "It is miraculous, but the third Father Koesler is even better than the first two. It is without reservation the best series ever about a priest detective." -Otto Penzler, owner, Mysterious Bookshop, New York City "Father Koesler is on the case, thank God." -Baltimore Sun Father Robert Koesler unravels his third mystery, this time zeroing in on one of six suspects, each with a motive for revenge, to solve...
100) Blue collar blues
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A sizzling novel set against the backdrop of the Detroit car world.
Champion Motors, one of Detroit's biggest auto manufacturers, is shutting down plants and laying off its workers. Tensions are mounting and violence is erupting. The lack of overtime to go around and a fatal attraction between employees at the plant ends in murder. Rife with scandal, drama, and passion- between and beyond the sheets- Blue Collar Blues is an...
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