A Dangerous Road, which introduced readers to Smokey Dalton and told the story of the days leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr.s assassination in Memphis, was an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel. Next came the stunning moke-Filled Rooms, set in Chicago during 1968s Democratic...
I hear you help people find things. So begins the latest case for Smokey Dalton, Kris Nelscott's enigmatic African-American p.i. But when Mrs. Alice Foster comes to the door of his small apartment, she's not missing a pet, or even a loved one: She wants Smokey to find her husband's...
Smokey Dalton and Jimmy, the young boy he protects, have settled into a new life on Chicago's South Side. But when Smokey gets hired to investigate the death of a black man in a local park, he realizes that the murder might not be an isolated case. The Chicago Police Department...