Name: Shades Of Black

A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories, Shades of Black is a landmark achievement. Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field-from Walter Mosley, "one of America's best mystery writers" (New York Times), to the late Hugh Holton, whose "gift for retaining suspense is golden" (Chicago Sun-Times)-it is the first anthology of African-American mystery writers. Shades of Black is not only a tribute to the art of storytelling-it's a fascinating foray into the rich and widely varied African-American experience.

Includes stories by:

Frankie Y. Bailey - Jacqueline Turner Banks - Chris Benson - Eleanor Taylor Bland and Anthony Bland - Patricia E. Canterbury - Christopher Chambers - Tracy Clark - Evelyn Coleman - Grace F. Edwards - Robert Greer - Terris MacMahan Grimes - Gar Anthony Haywood - Hugh Holton - Geri Spencer Hunter - Dicey Scroggins Jackson - Glenville Lovell - Lee E. Meadows - Penny Mickelbury - Walter Mosley - Percy Spurlark Parker - Gary Phillips - Charles Shipps

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley

Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley

See No Evil by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Dead Time by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Dying in the Dark by Valerie Wilson Wesley

The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley

The Company You Keep by Angela Henry

If I Should Die by Grace F. Edwards

Diablerie by Walter Mosley

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll

Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Midwives by Chris Bohjalian

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz