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Language
English
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On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve, and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Devastated over his breakup with his girlfriend, Carter Webb leaves Los Angeles to stay with his ailing Grandmother in her suburban Detroit home. Across the street lives the Hardwicke family. As Carter struggles to reconcile his own inner conflicts, he is drawn into the pains and loves of the Hardwicke women. All the Hardwicke women, in their way, fall in love with Carter. Each woman, in her own way, helps Carter find his way back.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to recover an illuminated medieval manuscript which was stolen for ransom. The assignment leads to information on the murder, twenty years earlier, of his partner and he reopens a probe.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In World War II Detroit, Lieutenant Zagreb hunts a self-appointed vigilante whose idea of supporting the war effort is to eliminate coupon hoarders by killing them. The investigation plays out against the background of a race riot, a shortage of manpower having brought many Southern blacks to the city.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.
"In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered...
Author
Publisher
Wade Multimedia, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The astonishing but true story of White Boy Rick Wershe is an example of why the War on Drugs has been a trillion-dollar policy failure for nearly half a century. Rick Wershe, Jr. was a street-savvy Detroit white kid in a dysfunctional family. His mother fled an abusive marriage, leaving her children behind. Rick raised himself. He didn't do drugs, but he knew important people in the narcotics underworld. The FBI had him infiltrate a powerful black...
9) Mr. Paradise
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Language
English
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Description
Roommates Kelly and Chloe are enjoying their lives and their downtown Detroit loft just fine. At Chloe's 84-year old boyfriend's house, they hang out one night. But things go awry and before the end of the evening there will be two corpses, tow angry hit men, one switch of identity, a safe-deposit box full of loot up for grabs, and fast on the scene, detective Frank Delsa, who now has another double homicide --and this one with a beautiful, willful...
11) The witchfinder
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A dying architect, his ex-wives wrangling over his fortune, learns the woman he loved did not cheat, the picture of her in another's arms was faked by a rival. PI Amos Walker of Detroit is hired to find her.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
An explosive expose of Detroit, icon of America's lost prosperity, from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff.
Back in his broken hometown, LeDuff searches through the ruins for clues to its fate, his family's, and his own. Once the richest city in America, Detroit is now the nation's poorest. It is an eerie and angry place of deserted factories and abandoned homes and forgotten people. LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city,...
15) Babysitter
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the waning days of the 1970s, the lives of several residents of Detroit and its affluent white suburbs are drawn together following the disappearance of yet another child. Hannah, a wife and mother, begins an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger; Mikey, a young street hustler, finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and then there's the child serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and elusive figure at the periphery...
Author
Series
Music that changed my life volume 2
Publisher
Wellstone Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
Explores the author's music background as the son of a musician father and vocalist mother and his eventual discovery of his own love for soul music and R&B.
17) 8 mile
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002
Language
English
Description
Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest of his days. With the help of his friends, and his new...
18) 8 mile
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002
Language
English
Description
Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest of his days. With the help of his friends, and his new...
19) Action Jackson
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Carl Weathers is Detroit police sergeant Jericho Action Jackson. He's pitted against the brutal thugs of ruthless auto tycoon Peter Dellaplane, who's out to murder his way to political power. Jackson's also involved with Dellaplane's beautiful wife Patrice -- and his exotic mistress Sydney.
20) The operator
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
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