S. A. Cosby
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gritty, voice-driven thriller about a former getaway driver who thought he had escaped the criminal life who is pulled back in by race, poverty, and his own former life of crime. Beauregard "Bug" Montage is a man with many different titles: husband, father, friend, honest car mechanic. But before he gave it up, Bug used to be known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best Wheel Man on the East Coast. After a series...
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of tales of terrifying encounters with strangers from a variety of popular mystery and crime fiction authors, including Michael Connelly, Dean Koontz, Joe Hill, and Attica Locke.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays about the complexity and diversity of rural America and its inhabitants.
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories--a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...