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1) Mr. Paradise
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English
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When party games involving a beautiful escort, her model roommate, lawyer, Tony Paradiso, and his aide Montez Taylor go murderously wrong, Detroit detective Frank Delsa finds himself with a double homicide on his hands.
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Language
English
Description
"On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing,...
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Raised in the bosom of the inner city, white Detroit Homicide cop Danny Cavanaugh speaks and acts with the unmistakable attitude of a black man. But the savage murders of affluent African-Americans are plunging him into the urban heart of terror, where he will learn first-hand how powerful, inviolate -- and deadly -- the color line truly is.
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Helen Sedlacek thought that when she stole millions from the mob, she'd be running for the rest of her life. So she's more than a little surprised when mob boss Humphrey DiEbola offers her a job. DiEbola claims that he's looking to retire. With an eye for ruthless talent, he wants to groom Helen for an executive position by putting her in charge of his illegal cigar factory and seeing what she can do. But when a poker game at DiEbola's home turns...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
It is the fall of 1943, and the city of Detroit is doing its best to recover from the explosive race riots that marked the recent summer. The police are working overtime to protect the auto plants and ensure that their massive machinery continues to churn out the steel that comprises America's lifeblood overseas. Pete Caudill, late of the Detroit detective squad, is passing the time sitting on the fire escape of a squalid rented room, consumed by...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
1940's Detroit: the war effort is in full swing and racial tensions are running high. When a vivacious white heiress is murdered in the black part of town, the city threatens to erupt into mob violence, bringing the factories to a grinding halt and imperiling Allied forces around the world.
Newly minted Detective Pete Caudill is charged with covering up the crime in the interests of civic peace and finding some kind of justice for the dead girl....
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
When Big Sid Sedlacek thought he could skim money from the mob, it was a fatally stupid mistake-one that was corrected by hit man Hal Good. And when Good is brought into the station as a possible witness to the very murder he just committed, he switches IDs with a drunk and makes his exit before Detective Sergeant Mulheisen can question him. But having a contract killer on the loose is just one of Mulheisen's problems. He's also contending with the...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When a bomb goes off at an environmental protest, Detroit police detective "Fang" Mulheisen's own mother is among the wounded. He turns in his badge to care for her-but once she recovers, his instincts drive him to return to the case on his own.
Detective Sergeant Mulheisen soon learns that his longtime nemesis, hired gun Joe Service, is also searching for the bombers on behalf of the Lucani-a rogue group of skilled agents who do what the law cannot....
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English
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In World War II Detroit, Lieutenant Zagreb hunts a self-appointed vigilante whose idea of supporting the war effort is to eliminate coupon hoarders by killing them. The investigation plays out against the background of a race riot, a shortage of manpower having brought many Southern blacks to the city.
12) Man with an axe
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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Fang Mulheisen of the Detroit police reopens an investigation into the death of the Teamster boss, Jimmy Hoffa. It happens after Mulheisen finds some notebooks purporting to explain Hoffa's 1975 disappearance.
13) Cold medina
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In Detroit, a white avenger goes to war against black gangs peddling dope. The unknown individual, dubbed the Handyman, cuts off the hands of his victims. Tony Hill, a black detective with a grudge against whites is assigned to catch him.
14) Stress
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Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
After some innocent black men are shot by a white policeman, the Detroit police appoint Officer Charlie Battle, a black policeman, to carry out an investigation, then put every possible obstacle in his way. But were the blacks really innocent? Battle's probe is complicated by the arrival of the FBI, the case involving Black Panthers. The story is set in the early 1970s. By the author of Edsel.
15) The ascent
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Kurt Argento, an ex-Detroit street cop who can't let injustice go-and who has the fighting skills to back up his idealism. If he sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the...
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Publisher
Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while most of the Detroit police department is fighting overseas, the "Four Horsemen" -- Lieutenant Max Zagreb, Sergeant Starvo Canal, and Detectives McReary and Burke -- struggle to keep the city safe from draft-dodging troublemakers, gangsters, racial tension and enemy saboteurs.