Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #1)
By: Nekesa Afia
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Harlem, 1926. Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidn…
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1. Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1)
By: Alexia Gordon
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner-- Lefty Award, Best Debut Novel Nominee--Agatha Award, Best First Novel Chosen one of Suspen… read more
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2. A Nest of Vipers (Bangalore Detectives Club #3)
By: Harini Nagendra
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the hi… read more
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- mystery thriller
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- historical fiction
- mystery
3. The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)
By: Krystal Marquis
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1910, the Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changin… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Olivia remembered the moment she'd realized that every Black person she knew was touched by the horror of slavery. Sometimes Olivia felt it like a wound hidden deep under smooth skin—one that she did…"-Krystal Marquis, The Davenports (The Davenports, #1)
4. Color Struck
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.53
Format: None pages, None
Zora Neale Hurston's tragic 1926 play Color Struck is a thought-provoking commentary on colorism wi… read more
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- historical fiction
5. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)
By: Stephen Spotswood
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more
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- mystery thriller
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- historical fiction
- mystery
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- queer
6. Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
By: Stephen Spotswood
4.03
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, F… read more
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- lesbian
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- fiction
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"The lady of the house has gone adventuring and I know not where."-Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
"I'm to take Becca Collins out dancing and try to get a glimpse of her inner workings?' 'Don't be crude.' She sniffed and, dare I say it, blushed a little. 'I trust you to use your best judgment. Don'…"-Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
"It's the ones that look like they're sleeping that I have a hard time with. Eventually, I notice the stillness. The absence of things I take for granted: the slow in-and-out of regular breathing, the…"-Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
7. Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)
By: Terry J. Benton-Walker
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Thirty years ago, a young woman was murdered, a family was lynched, and New Orleans saw the greates… read more
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- mystery
- queer
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"Maybe that's it," he says. "Art is the meaning of life."-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)
"The meaning of life. What a fucking joke. I barely understand the shit that goes on in mine."-Terry J. Benton-Walker, Blood Debts (Blood Debts, #1)
8. Rhode Island Red
By: Charlotte Carter
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The first book in the Nanette Hayes series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, who… read more
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9. Escaping Mr. Rochester
By: L.L. McKinney
3.83
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, Jane Eyre and Bertha Mason must save… read more
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- historical fiction
- queer
10. A Deadly Inside Scoop (An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery, #1)
By: Abby Collette
3.23
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
This book kicks off a charming cozy mystery series set in an ice cream shop--with a fabulous cast o… read more
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- adult
11. Black Candle Women
By: Diane Marie Brown
3.41
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you wi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift."-Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women
12. Murder is a Piece of Cake (Baker Street Mystery, #2)
By: Valerie Burns
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
With small town New Bison’s Spring Baking Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy… read more
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- mystery
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- adult
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13. Coconut Drop Dead (Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries, 3)
By: Olivia Matthews
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The case in Olivia Matthews's Coconut Drop Dead is going to be a tough nut to crack. Brooklyn’s an… read more
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- mystery
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- fiction
14. Dead Dead Girls (Harlem Renaissance Mystery, #1)
By: Nekesa Afia
3.21
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Harlem, 1926. Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidn… read more
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- lesbian
- mystery thriller
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- queer
15. A Glimmer of Death (Odessa Jones, #1)
By: Valerie Wilson Wesley
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Valerie Wilson Wesley launches a thrilling new mystery series set in New Jerse… read more
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- mystery thriller
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- mystery
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- adult
16. Where Sleeping Girls Lie
By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more
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- lgbt
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- mystery
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17. Hard Dough Homicide
By: Olivia Matthews
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Someone in Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean neighborhood has an appetite for murder in Olivia Matthews' … read more
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- mystery
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18. A Song Below Water (A Song Below Water, #1)
By: Bethany C. Morrow
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Tavia is already at odds with the world, forced to keep her siren identity under wraps in a society… read more
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19. Storm: Dawn of a Goddess
By: Tiffany D. Jackson
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Before she was the super hero Storm of Marvel's X-Men, she was Ororo of Cairo—a teenaged thief on t… read more
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20. Do What Godmother Says
By: L.S. Stratton
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secre… read more
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21. We Love the Nightlife
By: Rachel Koller Croft
3.59
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe in this dark and dazzli… read more
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