African American Suspense Thriller

After losing his job, MELVIN finds himself struggling to make ends meet. Figuring that he doesn't have any choice but to get it how he lives, he decides to get his the ski mask way. Melvin's first jack move is successful, but the caper nearly leaves him knocking on death's door. Realizing that he'll need someone in the streets to watch his back, he finds a crime partner in his fifteen-year-old son, TIAZ, a dangerous young thug who's destined for ghetto stardom. On their road to riches, the father and son duo stack plenty of money and dead bodies along the way. But it isn't until they run ...

Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off...again, and when she offers a fellow busker a place to stay for the night he ends up murdered on her kitchen floor. To make matters worse, the busker turns out to have been an undercover cop. And his former partner has taken an immediate and extreme dislike to Nan. When she finds that the dead man stashed a wad of cash in her apartment, cash that could go to help his blind girlfriend, Nan's desire to do the right thing lands her in trouble.

Carl Weber brings the best of urban street lit authors together, all telling their own dramatic tales of life in the streets in known cities across the USA. The second installment continues with Treasure Hernandez telling the tale of the Dirty South.

Stand Your Ground is the story of three women who find themselves thrown together because of the most horrible of situations. Janice Johnson suffers through every mother's nightmare when she finds out that her 16-year-old son, Marquis, was murdered in the parking lot of a convenience store. But she and her husband's horror becomes greater when they find out that the shooter has not been arrested. The Johnsons begin a quest to get justice for their son - though the Johnsons want to take different roads to justice.

This debut novel marks the beginning of my storytelling journey — a dramatic tale of friendship, betrayal, and the tangled threads of love and loyalty. Since writing Entangled, my voice has deepened, but this first story remains a raw and heartfelt snapshot of where it all began. Rita Meyers and Lisa Richards were more than best friends — they were sisters in spirit, lighting up Baltimore’s nights and navigating their careers with ambition and flair. But when a high-profile scandal rocks the brokerage firm where they once thrived, the two women land on opposite sides of a criminal ...

When business mixes with pleasure, passions ignite in the Book Shop Zara knows romancing her boss is a recipe for disaster, but she can't resist the powerful attraction between them. Alex is the older, successful owner of a thriving bookstore chain who could threaten everything Zara has worked for with just a flick of his wrist. Yet from the moment the beautiful young black woman begins working for Alex's company, the confident white executive pursues her relentlessly, unable to deny their explosive chemistry. Strict rules against office relationships exist for good reason, but Alex and ...

Florida, 1955... Two men are missing. The sudden disappearance of Pete Demopoulos is front-page news. A bloody crime scene points to violence, and everyone wants to know what happened to the successful husband, father, and heir-apparent to his family's chain of grocery stores. Hucklebuck Jones is missing, too. When he's not doing odd jobs for pocket change, Hucklebuck, a Negro deaf mute, lives alone in the swamps. Despite his cheerful demeanor, Hucklebuck scares folks. His disappearance goes unnoticed. If only the truth were known. Maryland, 1960... Twinton County has never seen the likes ...

After a long Labor Day weekend, 73-year-old Eugene Washington is found dead in his Leimert Park home. At first blush, his death seems unremarkable- heat wave combined with food poisoning from a holiday barbecue. But something in the way Washington died doesn’t make sense. LAPD Homicide Detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called to investigate the death and learns that the only family Washington had was the 6,000-member congregation of Blessed Mission Ministries, led by Bishop Solomon Tate. But something wicked is lurking among the congregants of this church.

Taz is the ruthless leader of an elite group of bandits who rule the streets of Oklahoma City. No one has met the mysterious boss who gives them their orders via laptop, but the arrangement works for everyone involved. Their criminal enterprise keeps them rolling in dough, allowing them to purchase property and businesses all over town. When Taz falls in love with Sacha, an ambitious young lawyer, he makes an unexpected enemy. Cliff, another lawyer at the firm, wants Sacha for himself, and he'll stop at nothing to win her back from the thug she's with.

"It's as if Constantine and Stargate had a baby, type of book." Good read. Suspense, Sci-Fi meets Supernatural. Read it for yourself. ~ Author Stephanie Marie Pelle ★★★★★★★ After indulging in The Veil Awakening by Zita Grant, I've been waiting patiently for this author to release more books to satisfy my need for another nail-biting, action novel. I must say Pray or Be Prey did not disappoint! From the first chapter, I was plunged into the mystery of the paranormal, accompied by suspense that wouldn't allow me to put this book down until I finished reading it. It has been four...

Blanche White is working as a temporary cook and housekeeper for a right-wing Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, Alistair Brindle, when someone tries to blackmail him. It's an ugly mess that Brindle's political team is eager to sweep under the carpet and that Blanche can't resist cleaning up herself...especially after a young black man is killed who knew too much about Brindle's dirty laundry. Her investigation raises dark secrets involving sex, environmental contamination, and political corruption, difficult stains that someone is trying to remove with murder.

From Richard Wright comes a compelling story of one man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself—a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. Brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic exploration of the tragic roots of criminal behavior.

Widowed and officially retired, Eugeena Patterson throws herself into organizing the neighborhood association. This presents a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and get to know new neighbors, like recently widowed Amos Jones - that is until Eugeena stumbles upon her estranged neighbor’s dead body. Eugeena’s daughter is fingered as a prime suspect, but where is she? Determined to find her missing daughter, Eugeena and Amos sort through a list of neighbors with shady or unknown backgrounds.

As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos Aires has recovered from the mayhem caused during Gideon's last job. But before the dust has settled and the bodies have been buried, Gideon calls in backup - including the lovely Hawks, with whom Gideon has heated memories - to launch his biggest act of revenge yet...one he believes will destroy his adversary, Midnight, once and for all.

Someone wants Morgan Shaw dead—or so the beautiful, brilliant, and hugely popular evening news anchor of top-rated Chicago TV station WLTV believes. Fearing for her safety, she turns to P. I. Ashe Cayne for protection. Though he sympathizes, Ashe turns her down—he’s not a bodyguard. But when Morgan’s car tires are slashed and she’s threatened again, Ashe agrees to help her.

In this explosive finale Chrissy will face her biggest challenges ever. Family secrets have been exposed, and the family is dealing with the agony. Chrissy is just ready to right her wrongs but; it won’t be easy. Everything Chrissy has every wanted will come with a bloody price! Meanwhile Maceo is devastated about the pending divorce and things are about to get messier. He’s trying his best to come to terms with fatherhood and divorce but; it’s easier said then done. For once in his life he’s beginning to regret everything he’s ever done to hurt Chrissy. In the midst of a double ...

After news of the attempted murder of his estranged fiancée, Gucci, Animal has two things on his mind: love and gunplay. With the help of his mistress, the deadly Red Sonja, Animal manages to elude his captors in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and washes up on the shores of Miami, Florida. He's one step closer to home, but it may as well be a world away. Animal is still a wanted fugitive, and getting to New York undetected proves to be trickier than he thought.

Dodgers is the story of a young man named East who works for an LA drug gang, sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys - including East's hotheaded younger brother - to kill a witness connected to a major case, who is hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that is entirely alien to him, and over the course of his journey the book brings in elements from a diverse array of genres, ranging from crime fiction to road narrative to coming-of-age novel.

Romeo’s irrational decision that ended Tiana, Ebony, and Malaysia’s lives has finally come back to haunt him. Now his brothers, and his entire crew are in deadly danger, having been made the targets of a heartless assassin. With a hit list circulating, the brothers must eliminate the threat before the Grim Reaper hits their next target… ROMEO!With Chico recently released from prison, he has no choice but to get his hands dirty once again in order to protect his boys. Racing against time, to find out the true identity of the assassin, Chico orchestrates a plan to draw out the beautiful...

Kimera Davis thought she was finally free from marrying for money - and living way too many lies. Until her obsessed ex-husband ignited the ultimate dark hoax, a spectacularly malicious deception that's left her family, and her best friend, Adria, reeling. Now Kimera and her young son are prisoners at a remote estate, under the thumb of her ex's powerful father. And she has only one slender chance of escape.