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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Barrett "Bear" Raines of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has his Little League game interrupted when a returning GI uses Bear and the local sheriff to commit suicide-by-cop. Barrett agonizes over the young man's death.
He knows that the young marine came home with a squad of other veterans who live outside the law near a place called Devil's Slew. Those GIs come under suspicion when federal authorities trace counterfeited...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
There is a Florida, that has nothing to do with Disney World. Nothing to do with palm trees or Holiday Inns. Tourists are neither courted nor coddled in this Florida, and you can go a hundred miles and never find a golden arch.
So says author Darryl Wimberley, and it's a Florida he knows. He knows, too, that in towns like Pepperfish Keys, there are those who still can't believe that a black man could rise to a high position in the state police. But,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
On a chilly October morning, Barrett "Bear" Raines finds himself on the campground of Linton Loyd, one of the richest men in Florida, watching Linton clean his latest catch. Barrett does not understand why he, an African-American detective for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has been invited to the rich man's playground, but soon discovers that Linton wants something from him: Linton wants Barrett to run for county sheriff and Linton will...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The first appearance of Barrett Raines in A Rock and a Hard Place added an intelligent and extraordinarily engaging black policeman to the short roster of leading Afro-American fictional detectives.
At the end of A Rock and a Hard Place, Raines is so torn by the conflicts he faced that he's gone into an emotional tailspin. While trying to save himself from depression Raines gets a new case. It involves the discovery of a mysterious stranger's body...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In Florida, black detective Barrett Raines investigates the murder of a woman for which his brother has been arrested. The woman, who was white and owned a restaurant near the sea, was involved in smuggling guns, a more likely cause of death than her relationship with a black womanizer.
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