Paula L. Woods - Author Information, Books, and News

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Left Coast Crime 2003
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    Books In Classes: [Mystery]
    Books In Genres: [Police Procedural] [Ethnic] [Woman Main Character]
    Books In Database: 5
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Charlotte Justice

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Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction (©1995)
	Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

Book Series : Charlotte Justice

- Los Angeles homicide detective Charlotte Justice

# 4 Strange Bedfellows (©2006) 272 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Woman Main Character Ethnic Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Shirley - RAM] [Harriet Klausner]

	# 3 Dirty Laundry (©2003) 304 pp.
		Mystery Police Procedural Woman Main Character Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] [Ruth Jordan - RAM]

# 2 Stormy Weather (©2001) 304 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Woman Main Character Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB

# 1 Inner City Blues (©1999) 316 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Woman Main Character Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Nominated for 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best First Novel [American]) Winner 2000 Macavity Award (Best First Mystery Novel) "Detective Charlotte Justice is a black, female police officer in the white male dominated Robbery-Homicide Division of the LAPD in the early 1990s. A curfew is in force during the LA riots and a number of Charlotte's white colleagues show a sickening racism when they spot a black curfew violator. And then the body of well known radical Cinque Lewis is found nearby and things get very personal for Charlotte. Lewis disappeared from sight after murdering Charlotte's husband and baby daughter nearly 14 years before. Inner City Blues is a very powerful, passionate book; full of feeling and emotion and warmth. Paula Woods paints an intense picture of a city which is a mass of contradictions." - Donna M - RAM

Mystery Police Procedural Woman Main Character Ethnic Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]
Nominated for 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best First Novel [American])
Winner 2000 Macavity Award (Best First Mystery Novel)
[4 stars]

"Detective Charlotte Justice is a black, female police officer in the white male dominated Robbery-Homicide Division of the LAPD in the early 1990s. A curfew is in force during the LA riots and a number of Charlotte's white colleagues show a sickening racism when they spot a black curfew violator. And then the body of well known radical Cinque Lewis is found nearby and things get very personal for Charlotte. Lewis disappeared from sight after murdering Charlotte's husband and baby daughter nearly 14 years before. Inner City Blues is a very powerful, passionate book; full of feeling and emotion and warmth. Paula Woods paints an intense picture of a city which is a mass of contradictions." - Donna M - RAM