DETROIT CRIME SERIES

The dark side of the motor city

What started as a trilogy became seven novels,
each touching on a decade in Detroit
 

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THUNDER CITY

FORGE BOOKS . 1999 . ISBN 0312863691

Harlan Crownover, scion of a great family of carriage makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run by Henry Ford, who has failed twice before in the automobile business. Desperate for funds, Harlan turns to political boss Big Jim Dolan, and Sal Borneo, a visionary mafioso struggling to bring the commerce of vice into the new century. Allies at first, they will soon be mortal enemies. When the crisis comes to an end, only Edith Hampton Crownover, Harlans troubled, aristocratic mother, will be in a position to shift the balance of power.

JITTERBUG

FORGE BOOKS . 1998 . ISBN 0312863608

Detroit during World War II, where Lieutenant Maximillian "Zag" Zagreb heads up a team of overage misfits at the police department's racket squad. A killer called Kilroy appears to be targeting hoarders of ration coupons, and Zagreb's investigators are the thin red line deployed to stop him. They use some extremely unorthodox tactics and find themselves in the midst of a race riot, but Kilroy continues to elude them and fight his private war against profiteers.

starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist

STRESS

WARNER BOOKS . 1999 . ISBN 0446912999

Against the Murder City backdrop of 1973, a young black cop investigates a possibly racist shooting by a white detective.

EDSEL

WARNER BOOKS . 1995 . ISBN 0446403660


Whiskey River's reporter returns after twenty years to share his adventures as an auto-industry pitchman in the 1950s.


KING OF THE CORNER

BANTAM . 1992 . ISBN 0553089269

A former Tigers pitcher tries to adjust to life as an ex-convict among the shambles of the city in 1990.


MOTOWN

BANTAM . 1991 . ISBN 0553089269

A black numbers boss, a muscle-car nut, and a tough cop struggle to keep a lid on the 1967 riots.


WHISKEY RIVER

BANTAM . 1990 . ISBN 0553070428

American Mystery Award Winner for Best Crime Novel
Edgar Award Nominee

A bizarre friendship develops between a brash newspaperman and a wild Prohibition-era gangster.

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