Eleanor Taylor Bland

A Marti MacAlister Mystery

1 - Dead Time (Mar-1992)
2 - Slow Burn (Aug-1993)
3 - Gone Quiet (Jul-1994)
4 - Done Wrong (Jun-1995)
5 - Keep Still (Jul-1996)
6 - See No Evil (Feb-1998)
7 - Tell No Tales (Feb-1999)
8 - Scream in Silence (Feb-2000)
9 - Whispers in the Dark (Apr-2001)
10 - Windy City Dying (Dec-2002)
11 - Fatal Remains (Dec-2003)
12 - A Cold and Silent Dying (Dec-2004)
13 - A Dark and Deadly Deception (Dec-2005)
14 - Suddenly a Stranger (Feb-2007)

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  Dead Time
  

  • Mar-1992
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 1
  

  Eleanor Taylor Bland's legions of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-- and one of the best-- mystery series written by an African American writer about an African American ...

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  Slow Burn
  

  • Aug-1993
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 2
  

  The deaths of a young woman and little girl in a suspicious fire that destroys a woman's clinic lead homicide detective Marti MacAlister and her partner, Vik Jessenovik, on the trail of an evil killer with a taste for young girls. Reprint....

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  Gone Quiet
  

  • Jul-1994
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 3
  

  Wishing she could kill her husband of thirty-five years, Gladys Hamilton is surprised when someone else beats her to it, and police detectives Marti MacAlister and Vic Jessenovik search for the truth about a shameful family secret. Reprint....

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  Done Wrong
  

  • Jun-1995
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 4
  

  COPS WERE DYING. A KILLER WAS GOING FREE. A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN HEART WAS OUT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. A mother, a widow, a black woman cop, Marti MacAlister lives and works in a quiet suburb. Part of her died in Chicago when her husband, an undercov...

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  Nightfire
  

  in Women On the Case

  • May-1996
  • / Mystery
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  Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

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  Keep Still
  

  • Jul-1996
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 5
  

  Crime veteran Marti MacAlister has put her husband's killer in jail and her heart on hold while she juggles life with two teenagers and eighteen-hour days as the only black woman cop in a Chicago suburb.
  
  In a summer of drugs, gangs, guns, and ...

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  See No Evil
  

  • Feb-1998
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 6
  

  Detective Marti MacAlister investigates the murder of a young woman whose criminal contacts may put a homeless man at risk. And while Marti looks for one killer, another has come from the past and into her home-zeroing in on all that is dear to Marti...

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  Go Quietly Into the Day
  

  in The Night Awakens

  • Apr-1998
  • / Suspense
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  The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

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  Tell No Tales
  

  • Feb-1999
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 7
  

  The blissful aftermath of Marti MacAlister's second wedding doesn't last long when her longtime partner Matthew "Vik" Jessennovik interrupts the honeymoon with some disturbing news. Two murders-one recent and another decades old-shock a wealthy Chica...

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  Scream in Silence
  

  • Feb-2000
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 8
  

  Beloved for both her complex mysteries and her fascinating main character, African-American female cop Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland is "one of today's most talented mystery writers" (Booklist). Now Marti is newly married, juggling domestic ...

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  Whispers in the Dark
  

  • Apr-2001
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 9
  

  A fine rain was falling as Detective Marti MacAlister made her way through the tall grass to the wooded area where the arm had been found. It was cool for early September, and the rain, little more than a mist, felt cold. Marti stared at the hand. Th...

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  Windy City Dying
  

  • Dec-2002
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 10
  

  Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, a...

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  Fatal Remains
  

  • Dec-2003
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 11
  

  When Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik respond to a report of skeletal remains found on a wooded piece of land, the pair has no idea it's just the first indication of a convoluted case of murder and conspiracy dating back hund...

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  Shades of Black
  

  • Feb-2004
  • / Suspense
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  A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories by Black authors.Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field -- from Walter Mosley, “one of America's best mystery writers” (The New York Times), to the late Hugh Holton, whose “g...

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  A Cold and Silent Dying
  

  • Dec-2004
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 12
  

  Lincoln Prairie Homicide Detective Marti MacAlister does not get along with her new boss. Lieutenant Gail Nicholson disapproves of what she calls Marti's sloppy work habits, and regards her success as a fluke rather than the result of hard work and s...

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  A Dark and Deadly Deception
  

  • Dec-2005
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 13
  

  Chicago detective Marti MacAlister has her work cut out for her these days. First, during the filming of a big Hollywood movie on location in Lincoln Prairie, the body of one of the film's stars turns up dead, along the shores of the Des Plaines Rive...

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  Suddenly a Stranger
  

  • Feb-2007
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Marti MacAlister Mystery - 14
  

  Gail Nicholson made many enemies leaking police records to aide criminals and political smear campaigns, including Detective Marti MacAlister, who served under her when she was a lieutenant at the Lincoln Prairie Police Department. For two years Nich...

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