Paula Woods
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Stormy Weather was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 2001. In it, Macavity Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Paula L. Woods crafts a masterful mystery featuring Charlotte Justice, a scrupulous detective in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. During the tense aftermath of the Rodney King riots, pioneering African American filmmaker and social activist Maynard Duncan dies of natural causes--or so it seems. But Charlotte...
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Charlotte Justice novels volume 3
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During the Los Angeles campaign to replace longtime incumbent mayor Tom Bradley, the stakes are high for Detective Charlotte Justice, of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. When she's called to Koreatown to investigate the shocking murder of Vicki Park, special markets strategist for an upstart campaign, all of her skills-and fears-come to the fore. Park, a Korean, is found bludgeoned and bound, her body dumped in an alley. But who was the...
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Charlotte Justice novels volume 4
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Torn between her proud African American family and colleagues who still can't deal with diversity, LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice returns to an investigation she once had to leave behind. Thirteen years before, Justice's husband and child were murdered in their own driveway. Now Charlotte is on edge again, bedeviled by bloody memories, a violent incident involving a fellow officer, and a cold case that turns red-hot. In this pivotal installment...
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Charlotte Justice novels volume 1
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A black policewoman receives a beating from white officers while rescuing a black doctor in a race riot in Los Angeles. Alas, the doctor is no angel, as officer Charlotte Justice learns when he is murdered. A debut in fiction.
