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| Lynn Abercrombie (Walter Sorrells) |
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Mechelle Deakes: African-American police detective demoted to the cold case unit, in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Nikki Baker |
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Virginia Kelly: black
lesbian stockbroker in Chicago, Illinois |
| John Ball |
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Virgil Tibbs: black
homicide detective based in Pasadena, California |
| Robert Banfelder |
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Justin Barnes: black American maverick with his own brand of
justice |
| Robert Barnard |
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Charlie Peace:
young black Scotland Yard detective first in London and then in Leeds,
England |
| Karen Grigsby Bates |
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Alex (Alexa) Powell: African-American newspaper columnist
in Los Angeles, California |
| George Baxt |
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Pharoah Love: gay,
black police detective in New York City |
| Eleanor Taylor Bland |
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Marti MacAlister:
widowed black police detective in Lincoln Prairie, Illinois |
| Stephen L. Carter |
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Talcott Garland:
African-American law professor at an Ivy League university |
| John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington |
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Ralph “Rat” Trapp:
black homicide detective captain, in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Kenn Davis |
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Carver Bascombe: black
poet and private investigator, in San Francisco, California |
| Kyra Davis |
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Sophie Katz: half-Black,
half-Jewish mystery writer, in San Francisco, California |
| Nora Deloach |
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Mama, (Grace “Candi” Covington), an African-American
county social worker in Otis, South Carolina, and her daughter Simone
Covington, a paralegal in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Grace F. Edwards |
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Mali Anderson:
black female ex-NYPD cop, turned sleuth in Harlem, New York |
| Mary Anna Evans |
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Faye Longchamp:
black archaeology student digging up artifacts for the black market
on her plantation on North Florida’s Gulf Coast |
| Robert Greer |
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CJ Floyd: black bail bondsman, later Western collectible dealer, in Denver, Colorado |
| Terris McMahan Grimes |
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Theresa Galloway: plus-sized African-American personnel officer at the Department of Environmental Equity in Sacramento, California |
| Barbara Hambly |
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Ben January: surgeon and music teacher in 1833 New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Gar Anthony Haywood |
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Aaron Gunner:
black private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| James Hime |
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Clyde Thomas: first black deputy sheriff, in Brenham, Texas |
| Ed Lacy |
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Lee Hayes: black police detective, in New York City |
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Toussaint Moore: black postal worker turned private detective |
| Joe R. Lansdale |
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Leonard Pine: gay
and black, in East Texas |
| John Lescroart |
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Abe Glitsky: black,
Jewish cop in San Francisco, California |
| Dick Lochte with Christopher Darden |
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Nicolette (Nikki) Hill:
30-something black prosecutor in Los Angeles, California |
| Richard A. Lupoff |
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Marvia Plum:
black homicide detective, in Berkeley, California |
| Ann McMillan |
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Judah Daniel: freedwoman
who is also the local herbalist, at the time of the Civil War in
Virginia |
| Penny Mickelbury |
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Carole Ann Gibson:
black criminal defense attorney in Washington, DC |
| Walter Mosley |
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Easy Rawlins: black WWII veteran living in 1940s–1950s
Los Angeles, California |
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Leonid McGill:
black ex-boxer, old-school private investigator, in New York City |
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Paris Minton, Watts bookstore owner, and
the dangerous but principled Fearless Jones, in 1950s Los Angeles,
California |
| Barbara Neely |
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Blanche White: middle-aged
black domestic in North Carolina |
| Kris Nelscott |
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Smokey Dalton: African-American
unlicensed private investigator in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Hilary Norman |
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Sam Becket: African-American
homicide detective, and wife Grace Lucca, a child psychologist, in
Miami Beach, Florida |
| Marc Olden |
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Robert Sand: the Black
Samurai, trained for seven years by a Japanese samurai master, fighting
to save the world from sinister threats |
| George P. Pelecanos |
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Derek Strange:
black ex-cop turned private investigator, in Washington,
DC |
| P.J. Parrish |
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Louis Kincaid: a biracial
cop starting in Mississippi in 1983, then Michigan, and by the third
book in south Florida, and later a private investigator |
| Gary Phillips |
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Ivan Monk: African-American
private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
| Mike Phillips |
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Sam Dean: Jamaica-born
black journalist in London, England |
| Pamela Samuels-Young |
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Vernetta Henderson:
African-American attorney at a large law firm in Los Angeles, California |
| James Sallis |
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Lew Griffin: black
private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Robert Skinner |
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Wesley Farrell:
Creole nightclub owner passing for white, in 1930s New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Julie Smith |
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Talba Wallis: (AKA
Baroness de Pontalba), a black poet and computer expert, in New Orleans,
Louisiana |
| Pamela Thomas-Graham |
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Nikki Chasei:
black economics professor in Cambridge Massachusetts in the Ivy
League Mystery series |
| Ernest Tidyman |
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John Shaft: tough,
black private detective in New York City |
| Valerie Wilson Wesley |
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Tamara Hayle:
black ex-cop turned private investigator, in Newark, New Jersey |
| Darryl Wimberley |
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Barrett “Bear” Raines:
first black detective in an all-white police force in Deacon
Beach, Florida |
| Paula L. Woods |
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Charlotte Justice:
black woman homicide detective in Los Angeles, California |
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