Bøger af B. James

Debbie Lytle Meads had gone through a traumatic sexual abuse by two drug dealer brothers and put into prostitution during her teenage years. She tells her brother, Leon. He takes her to get an abortion. He is sentenced to life in prison when he kills the brothers. When she turns eighteen, their friend, Allan Meads marries her and they move to New Jersey.Brian, the drug dealers younger brother fi nd them and forces Allan go to New York every weekend to sell his drugs threatening to take Debbie back to New York. Allan gets sick with cancer and Debbie won't leave his side and refuses to go to New York and Brian starts beating her. Allan dies and Debbie takes a photo to his sister, Josephine who was married to Samuel Palts and who knew nothing about his existence. Sam fi nds out Josephine had gotten an abortion at eighteen, had her tubes tied and he gets an annulment and he and Debbie then fall in love.Vanetta, Samuel's older sister has a best friend named Tanya Tamms, and Tanya with her mother, Sharon who want her dead because Tanya wants Samuel.Debbie takes things into her own hands to try and stop Tanya and Sharon so that she can finally relieve herself and Sam of the two burdens in their lives.

Justin Justin Lars and Tina Stanes meet at a buffet restaurant by pure mistake. Justin, a young handsome, white man has a family who are bigots that own a dry cleaning store. He himself wants to open up a party or event planning business.Tina, a young pretty black girl, is a photographer who takes family photos of mainly rich people at their homes.Their attraction is mutual, but Tina run into his family who seems to be everywhere they go and they harass her with racial slurs. Justin is aggravated and upset by this. Other things start to happen that is always directed at Tina. Their relationship continues to flourish and their troubles and harassments are not only problematic but it turns dangerous and almost deadly.No longer willing and able to continue to go on with the disturbances happening in their lives, they may have to make a risky decision that could change their lives forever, in which one of them could possibly lose their life.

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Naomi Anstruther's undercover operation among the drug gangs, planned carefully by Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur, has ended in a bloody shoot-out. Naomi escapes, but both her ex-boyfriend and her current lover-who shouldn't have been there-are dead. Now the biggest danger to Naomi is a young woman named Esme, who believes that she and Naomi should personally avenge Donald's and Lyndon's deaths."One of the most exquisitely sardonic stylists writing crime fiction today."-Richard Lopez, Washington Post Book World "[A] black and zestful police series.... Matchless stuff by the genre's finest stylist."-Literary Review "One of the most exquisitely sardonic stylists writing crime fiction today."-Richard Lopez, Washington Post Book World "A tremendous writer. . . . Where else can you find a mystery series with as many layers of gorgeous stuff?"-Chicago Tribune "Bill James's Harpur and Iles books are deliciously unsavory.-John Harvey, "The Crime Writer's Crime Writer," The Guardian "[A] brilliantly stylish series of novels .... A unique author who is an acquired habit, but once discovered, impossible to kick."-Daily Express [London], Frances Fyfield "British mystery writing's finest prose stylist...startling, achingly funny and sometimes wholly surreal.... Essential reading."-The Observer [London], Peter Guttridge

At nineteen years old, Colin Harpur's girlfriend Denise Prior knows little about criminals, and even less about the law. When Denise drifts into the social circle of Harpur's number-one informant Jack Lamb, and one of the criminals is shot to death during a robbery, Denise's life is suddenly in danger and Harpur must solve a new crime-before it happens.