Mystery, detective fiction, and crime thrillers featuring black characters and/or by black authors.
created by heathersdesk
last updated March, 2026
Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan)
Aaron Philip Clark
The Bone Readers
Jacob Ross
Every Last Breath (Final Hour #1)
Juno Rushdan
Love and Other Criminal Behavior
Nikki Dolson
Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #1)
Cheryl A. Head
August Snow (August Snow #1)
Stephen Mack Jones
Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries #1)
Alexia Gordon
Devil Is Fine
John Vercher
Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day, #1)
Kellye Garrett
Broken Places (Cass Raines, #1)
Tracy Clark
Easy Motion Tourist
Leye Adenle
Somebody Else's Child (Theresa Galloway Mystery #1)
Terris McMahan Grimes
Dear Sister Dead: A 1920s Historical Mystery
Persia Walker
The Devil's Hatband
Robert Greer
The Red Queen Dies (Detective Hannah McCabe, #1)
Frankie Y. Bailey
Keeping Secrets
Penny Mickelbury
When Death Comes Stealing (Tamara Hayle, #1)
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Inner City Blues (Charlotte Justice, #1)
Paula L. Woods
Too Beautiful to Die (Blades Overstreet Mystery)
Glenville Lovell
The Rose Petal Beach
Dorothy Koomson
Going Nowhere Fast (Joe & Dottie Loudermilk, #1)
Gar Anthony Haywood
Deceptive Innocence (Pure Sin, #1)
Kyra Davis
If I Should Die (Mali Anderson Book 1)
Grace F. Edwards
Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1)
Barbara Neely
Dead Time (Marti MacAlister, #1)
Eleanor Taylor Bland
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
Chester Himes
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
They All Fall Down
Rachel Howzell Hall
Forty Acres
Dwayne Alexander Smith
Lakewood
Megan Giddings
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