Fiction - Black Reads

Winner of the Hammett Prize and the Nero AwardFrom the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit’s bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a f...

Nyctophobia is a story about the bounds and limits of friendship. Five partners in a detective agency have been accidentally introduced to a conspi...

"The steam creeps slowly out of the vents from manhole covers as night consumes the landscape of Tavarus Cove, Delaware. The night does it's best t...

The fourth installment in this award-winning mystery series draws actor-turned-super-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick into his most challenging case, compe...

In the sixties era of black nationalism, political abductions, and epidemic police corruption, Easy’s latest case will pull him—unremittingly and...

A ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking...

From the mind of Donald Goines, one of the most influential, bestselling Black authors to date, comes a edition reissue of his timeless, page-tur...

From the mind of Donald Goines, one of the most influential, bestselling Black authors to date, comes a edition reissue of his timeless, page-tur...

In the streets of the nation's capital, a homeless man must quickly learn the ropes of being a detective after a wealthy ex-government official set...

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year: bestselling author Walter Mosley "is back with a whole new character to love...As gorgeous ...

From “the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler” (San Francisco Chronicle) comes a hard-hitting, entertaining entry in the trailblaz...

"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's lo...

The book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). • Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get...