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African-American Mysteries
Mysteries involving African-American detectives.
Related Genres
African-American Fantasy/SF
African-American Interest
Authors & Titles
- Alexandria, Vincent: Joe Johnson series

- If Walls Could Talk

- Postal Blues

- Black Rain

- Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers (edited by Otto Penzler)

- Bland, Eleanor Taylor: Marti McAllister series
- Dead Time

- Slow Burn

- Gone Quiet

- Done Wrong

- Keep Still

- See No Evil

- Tell No Tales

- Scream in Silence

- Whispers in the Dark

- Fatal Remains

- A Cold and Silent Dying

- Brown, Elaine Meryl: Lemon City

- Carter, Charlotte: Nanette Hayes series
- Rhode Island Red

- Coq au Vin

- Drumsticks

- Chambers, Christopehr: Angela Bivens series
- Sympathy for the Devil

- Edwards, Grace F.: Mali Andersen series
- If I Should Die

- A Toast Before Dying

- No Time To Die

- Do or Die

- Garland, Ardella: see Joe, Yolanda (below)
- Hambly, Barbara: Benjamin January series
- A Free Man of Color

- Fever Season

- Graveyard Dust

- Sold Down the River

- Die Upon a Kiss

- Wet Grave

- Days of the Dead

- Dead Water

- Dead and Buried

- Hardwick, Gary: Color of Justice

- Hayes, Teddy: Devil Barnett series

- Blood Red Blues

- Dead By Popular Demand

- Haywood, Gar Anthony: Aaron Gunner series
- You Can Die Trying

- Not Long for This World

- Fear of the Dark

- It's Not a Pretty Sight

- When Last Seen Alive

- All the Lucky Ones Are Dead

(short stories) Lyrics for the Blues

- Henry, Angela: Kendra Clayton series

- The Company You Keep

- Tangled Roots

- Hime, James: Jeremiah Spur & Clyde Thomas series
- The Night of the Dance

- Scared Money

- Where Armadillos Go to Die

- Joe, Yolanda (writing as Ardella Garland): Georgia Barnett series
- Details at Ten

- Hit Time

- Video Cowboys

- Kelley, Norman: Nina Halligan series
- Black Heat

- The Big Mango

- Lamar, Jake: If 6 Were 9

- Lamar, Jake: Rendezvous Eighteenth

- Mallette, Gloria: Promises to Keep

- Mickelbury, Penny: Carole Ann Gibson series
- One Must Wait

- Where to Choose

- The Step Between

- Paradise Interrupted

- Mosley, Walter: Easy Rawlins series
- Devil in a Blue Dress

- A Red Death

- White Butterfly

- Black Betty

- A Little Yellow Dog

- Gone Fishin'

- Bad Boy Brawly Brown

- Little Scarlet

- Blonde Faith

(short stories) Six Easy Pieces 
- Neely, Barbara: Blanche White series
- Blanche on the Lam

- Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

- Blanche Cleans Up

- Blanche Passes Go

- Nelscott, Kris: Smokey Dalton series
- A Dangerous Road

- Smoke-Filled Rooms

- Thin Walls

- Stone Cribs

- War at Home

- Days of Rage

(short story) A Smokey Dalton short story appears in Chicago Blues (edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann)

- Norman, Hilary: Sam Becket series

- Mind Games

- Last Run

- Shimmer

- Phillips, Gary: Ivan Monk series
- Violent Spring

- Perdition, U.S.A.

- Bad Night is Falling

- Only the Wicked

(short stories) Monkology

- Sallis, James: Lew Griffin series
- The Long-Legged Fly

- Moth

- Black Hornet

- Eye of the Cricket

- Bluebottle

- Ghost of a Flea

- Shades of Black (edited by Eleanor Taylor Bland)

- Walker, Blair S.: Darryl Billups series
- Up Jumped the Devil

- Hidden in Plain View

- Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes

- Walker, Persia: Harlem Redux

- Wesley, Valerie Wilson: Tamara Hayle series
- Devil's Gonna Get Him

- No Hiding Place

- When Death Comes Stealing

- Where Evil Sleeps

- Easier to Kill

- The Devil Riding

- Dying in the Dark

- Of Blood and Sorrow

- West, Chassie: Leigh Ann Warren series

- Sunrise

- Killing Kin

- Killer Riches

- Killer Chameleon

- Woods, Paula L.: Charlotte Justice series
- Inner City Blues

- Stormy Weather

- Dirty Laundry

- Strange Bedfellows

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