S. A Cosby
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
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A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. 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...
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"Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies." Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town...
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"A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.
Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic, a loving husband, and a hard-working dad. Bug knows there’s no future in the man he used to be: known from the hills of North Carolina to the beaches of Florida as the best wheelman on the East Coast.
He thought he'd left all that behind him, but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble,...
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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:...
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PREMIO ANTHONY A LA MEJOR NOVELA DEL AÑO
Un padre negro. Un padre blanco.
Dos hijos asesinados. Una misión de venganza.
Ike Randolph salió hace quince años de la cárcel. Desde entonces no ha tenido ni siquiera una multa por exceso de velocidad. Sin embargo, un hombre negro siempre teme a la policía. Lo último que espera escuchar es que su hijo Isiah haya sido asesinado junto a su marido blanco, Derek. Ike nunca había aceptado completamente...
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"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...