"Black and blue is an in-depth novel exploring issues around police shootings of unarmed Blacks. It follows Detective Givens, a Black detective assigned to investigate the shooting of a Black man by a White officer. As he investigates, he realizes the issues of unemployment and poverty, drug addiction, political indifference, media sensationalism, and community resistance are deeply connected to this case"--

When Dominic Law left the force for a more lucrative offer to run a friend's private security firm, he thought that his days of suffering as a police detective were over, and he could finally sit back, relax, and take the cases that he wanted, when he wanted. Was he ever wrong. Before he can settle into his cushy new office and flirt with his sexy secretary, Dominic finds himself entangled in the politics and rules that he thought he had left behind....

Outside the apartment where a wake is going on, the manager of the A & P across the street is robbed. Reverend Short, a storefront preacher addicted to opium and brandy, is watching from a bedroom window in the flat. He leans too far and falls out; a bread basket, sitting outside the bakery below, saves him. Back inside, he says he sees a vision of a dead man. Outside, in the very basket Short landed in, lies the body of Valentine Haines. Who murdered...