Darryl Wimberley | |
| A Tinker's Damn In this powerfully affecting novel, Wimberley explores the relationship between Tink and Carter Buchanan, a father and son whose differences have always been outweighed by a grudging mutual respect and fragile loyalty. When a brutal murder and a generations-old feud threaten the tenuous balance of their relationship, Carter must soon decide for himself where—and with whom—he belongs... Paperback: ISBN 10: 1-59264-182-2 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-182-6 Pages: c.300 US$14.95 UK£9.99 CAN$19.95 Publication date: April 2007 More Info... |  |
| Kaleidoscope Jack Romaine's addiction to speakeasies and cards has landed him in a tight spot - one which he can't use his good looks to get out of. With debts to dangerous men piling up, he becomes an unwilling recruit for a Cincinnati gangster needing an expendable tool to recover his stolen cash and railroad bonds. Unfortunately, Jack is not the only man on the trail of the stolen money - he is in competition with a sadistic killer who relishes the carnage he leaves in his wake. The trail leads south to Kaleidoscope; a 'beddy' for freaks during the months when carnival is out-of-season... Publication date: September 2008 More Info... |  |
| The King of Colored Town There are good people and bad on both sides of the tracks that divide Laureate from 'Colored Town'. Our instruction in that hard truth comes as we follow two African-American teens, Cilla Handsom and Joe Billy King, as they endure the backlash resulting from the integration of their segregated school with the all-white school run by Lafayette County's all-white school board... Hardcover: ISBN 10: 1592641814 ISBN 13: 9781592641819 Pages: c.365 US$24.95 UK£14.99 CAN$32.95 Publication date: April 2007 More Info... |  |
| A Rock and a Hard Place Barrett Raines is a black detective in Deacon Beach, a sweltering enclave in northwestern Florida. Seven years after Ramona Walker, the town’s eternal Homecoming Queen, helped push Barrett onto the all-white force despite bigoted opposition, Raines has made a place for himself—to all appearances he is accepted. But affections can be fickle, as Barrett discovers when Ramona is brutally raped and murdered, and his despised brother, Delton, becomes chief suspect for the crime. It’s a no-win situation for Barrett... Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
| Dead Man's Bay Barrett Raines is about to learn more about life on the dark side of Florida than he ever could have imagined. His life is falling apart at the seams: His wife has left him, taking their twin sons, and he is confined to desk duty because of failing performance. When Barrett and his partner Cricket are finally assigned to a new case involving a brutally murdered man and possible illegal activities, they gladly accept it even though it looks like it will be a dead end. They could not have been more wrong. The case leads Barrett to Dead Man’s Bay... Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
| Strawman's Hammock Barrett Raines is offered an opportunity to run for Lafayette County sheriff against Lou Sessions. Backing Raines is Linton Loyd, a powerful businessman and Sessions’ enemy. Barrett doesn’t understand why a rich white man would want to back him, an African-American, but it’s an appealing opportunity… until Loyd’s son becomes a suspect in the death of a Hispanic migrant female who was found shackled to the walls of a hut in a swamp called Strawman’s Hammock... Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
| Pepperfish Keys Special agent Barrett "Bear" Raines has some slippery fish to fry in Wimberly's cleverly constructed fourth procedural, which hinges on the gruesome murder of Beth Ann Stanton, daughter of Florida senator Baxter Stanton. Raines, "a black cop in a white town"—that of Deacon Beach, just north of the Pepperfish Keys—is still smarting from his recent failure to tie the senator's wealth to dirty money. Eddy DeLeon, Beth Ann's boyfriend and a local criminal, becomes a key suspect after his tryst with Beth Ann on the day of the murder comes to light. When Sharon Fowler, an ambitious local TV reporter, offers to help Bear nail DeLeon, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent agrees despite his misgivings... Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
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