S. A. Cosby

"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 was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed of his...

Beauregard "Bug Montage" es un marido, padre, y mecánico honesto. Pero alguna vez fue reconocido, desde Carolina del Norte hasta las playas de la Florida, como el mejor piloto de carreras clandestinas de la región. Igual que su padre desaparecido hace muchos años. Su vida empezaba a encaminarse, parecía que podía dejar atrás definitivamente el mundo del crimen que lo marcó desde pequeño. Pero su situación financiera se ha vuelto imposible:...

"Seventh grader Rahim Reynolds loves testing out the gadgets invented by his brilliant friend Kasia Collins. First there were the X-ray glasses and all the trouble they caused. Now there’s the new cell phone she built for his birthday, even though his parents won’t let him have one. But Rahim is excited to use the phone to search for videos of his favorite old-school rap group. What he doesn’t know is the phone has a special battery that interfaces...

"A Rage in Harlem introduces detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in a searing escapade. In The Real Cool Killers, the duo investigates a shooting and discovers an unsettling personal connection. In The Crazy Kill, a man is found in a breadbasket, stabbed to death, leaving Himes's detectives to find out who among the many suspects did it. And in Cotton Comes to Harlem, the brazen robbery of a notorious con man running a back-to-Africa...

"For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary authors--diverse in ethnic background, sexual orientation, geographic...

"From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York – twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories." --publisher's website.

"From untrustworthy bartenders fiddling with drink orders to a commuter watching a stalking unfold on a train to a sociopath with an unuaual collection delivering a valuable life lesson, the characters in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022 are utterly compelling. These stories delightfully twist, bend, and snap, and in the process, pull back the curtain on horrors and uncertainties in not only made-up worlds but also our own." --back cover...

"Triumphant!"-THE LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review "Visceral, cutting" -BOOKLIST, Starred Review **"Powerhouse anthology" -Publishers Weekly -Includes the Bram Stoker Award Nominated story: Through the Looking Glass and Straight Into Hell,by Christa Carmen Addiction is the perpetual epidemic, where swarms of human moths flutter to the flames of hell. Because that warm blanket of a heroin high, that joyful intoxication of a pint of vodka, that...