Love and Death in Brooklyn

With its introduction of a bold new voice in crime fiction, Glenville Lovell’s first mystery, Too Beautiful to Die, was called a “page-turner” (New York Daily News) and “stylish entertainment” (Booklist). Now Lovell is back, with a timely novel of a brilliant young African-American politician gunned down as his career is about to take off.

Just when ex-cop Blades Overstreet finally has his life back on track, the son of his good friend and mentor is murdered before his eyes. Blades knows h...