Solomon Jones, Author . Villard/Strivers Row $13.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-75660-3
First-timer Jones travels deep into the drug-fueled underworld of a grim urban Philadelphia in this energetic novel, a neo-noir voyage into violence and injustice. When a popular Puerto Rican city councilman with a stellar anti-corruption record is...
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Solomon Jones, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30615-1
Jones returns to the oppressive, crack-addicted world of the Philadelphia underclass of his powerful debut, Pipe Dream
(2001), with this ambitious story. In 1990, a nine year-old girl, Kenya Brown, disappears from a grim housing project known as
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Solomon Jones, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-30616-8
Philadelphia Weekly
columnist Jones's lively second novel (after The Bridge
) is a classic tale of a doomed relationship between bad boy Jamal Nichols, the son of a North Philadelphia drug lord, and a beautiful, restless preacher's daughter
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Solomon Jones, Author . Minotaur $23.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-34838-0
At the start of Jones's explosive sequel to C.R.E.A.M
. (2007), just as a Philadelphia judge is about to rule that Karima “Cream” Thomas must stand trial for the murder of her boyfriend, Duane Faision, who died defending her in the...
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Solomon Jones, Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58020-9
Dreams of the angel of death haunt crusty, nearly retired Philadelphia homicide detective Michael Coletti in this so-so serial killer mystery. When a gunman calling himself "the angel of death" kills three people in a church, Fr. Thomas O'Reilly...
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Solomon Jones, Author Minotaur Books $19.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-312-34837-3
Philadelphia politics and drugs complicate the fate of two star-crossed lovers in Jones's gripping new novel. Twenty-three-year-old Karima ""Cream"" Thomas is just out of prison, having served six months for taking the fall for Duane Faison, a...
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Solomon Jones. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58081-0
Jones's sequel to 2010's The Last Confession gets off to a strong start. When Philadelphia homicide detective Mike Coletti visits the grave of police profiler Mary Smithson, who betrayed him in the previous book, in a doomed attempt at closure, he's
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Solomon Jones. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00644-8
Jones's third Mike Coletti crime novel (after 2011's The Gravedigger's Ball) explodes with a drug-related cop killing, relentlessly piles up body after body around former policewoman now Philadelphia D.A. Andrea Wilson, but deflates rapidly in a...
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Solomon Jones. Beacon, $22 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8070-2017-3
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jones (The Dead Man’s Wife) issues a brisk and impassioned call for America to “right the wrongs of a past that is littered with laws meant to subjugate African Americans.” Each chapter recounts the story of a Black...
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