When attorney Carol Anne Gibson's corporate lawyer husband is brutally murdered, she investigates to uncover an unsavory conspiracy involving environmentalists, big money, race, and clandestine family ties. Reprint.

One Must Wait

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mickelbury, Penny

Thrillers & Suspense

St Martins Pr

Carole Ann Gibson: She used to uphold the law. Now she fights for justice. Life isn't fair, but former D.C. Lawyer Carole Ann Gibson believes it should be just. A year ago, catching her husband's killer strained her faith in the legal system to the breaking point. Now she's climbing out of a numbing grief, and a plea for help from her mother may be all she needs snap her out of her lethargy...or get her killed. Her mother's neighborhood has been one of Los Angele's little jewels: a couple of city blocks where mixed cultures got along and prospered. Now a rash of muggings and murders have residents scared to death. If the cops won't help, what can one woman do? Maybe nothing. But Carole Ann Gibson is willing to risk her life trying--to uncover the real reason for police indifference and enter a dark zone where those who catch criminals sometimes become them...

Where To Choose

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

St. Martin's Paperbacks

Introducing rising black criminal defense attorney Carol Ann Gibson--in a highly charged new series by the Lambda Award-nominated author of "Night Songs". When her husband, a high-powered corporate lawyer, ends up dead after meeting with a most unscrupulous client, Carol Ann travels from the nation's capital to the backwater swamps of Louisiana to find out the secrets behind his death Targeted print ads. 3-city author tour.

ONE MUST WAIT: A NOVEL (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)

Penny Micklebury

United States

Simon&Schuster

An unproductive year after her husband's murder, Washington lawyer Carol Ann rushes out to Los Angeles to help a family friend attacked in what used to be a safe neighborhood and discovers that her investigation into the incident has made her a target

Where to Choose: A Novel

Carole Ann Gibson finds a new case that combines her detective skills with her lawyer expertise when she searches for the vanished daughter of the richest man in Washington, D.C., encountering corpses, kidnappings, and danger in the process

The Step Between (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)

Called to the tropical Isle de Paix to help the new government build roads and improve communications, Carole Ann Gibson soon finds herself embroiled in corruption and running for her own life.

Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)

No matter how hard she tries to live the quiet life, trouble has a way of grabbing Carole Ann Gibson by the throat -- and this time all her famous intuition and raw courage might not be enough to save her.  In the heartbreaking aftermath of her husband's death, Carole Ann, widely known as "the best damn trial lawyer in D.C.," left her criminal-law practice for what she hoped was a safer, saner life as a partner in her friend Jake's security firm. But when the richest man in Washington, D.C., hires her to find his daughter, she is caught up in a tangle of family relationships in which the stakes are not only money but life itself. Add to that a routine surveillance job that turns up three corpses and the kidnapping of her partner's beloved wife, Grace, and Carole Anne is -- once again -- in over her head in the kind of trouble that launches an all-out attack on her survival skills.  Showcasing her rare talent for mixing the subtlety and complexity of personal relationships with the excitement and suspense of a rapid-fire plot, Penny Mickelbury's third Carole Ann Gibson novel brings something altogether unique and refreshing to the mystery genre. Filled with an unforgettable cast of emotionally authentic characters as ethnically diverse as Washington, D.C., itself; pulse-pounding action; truly surprising twists of plot; and a delightfully clever ending, The Step Between is Mickelbury at her best.

The Step Between

This interracial, intergenerational saga of love, land and loss is told from the disparate perspectives of Ruth Thatcher, who is Black, and Jonas Thatcher, who is White, and spans nearly a century. The story begins in 1917 when Ruth and Jonas are farm children and ends in 2005 as their descendants struggle to unravel and understand the legacies of this star-crossed pair. During the course of their lifetimes, Ruth and Jonas-- and their respective families-- have evolved and ultimately have prospered, but it is left for their descendants to come to grips with the long-unacknowledged truth that the two families are actually one.

Belle City

Whitepoint Press

In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury's collection of stories God's Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.
A nearly blind woman is determined to venture out into the world alone, and must face the consequences of her travels. A woman estranged from her community ponders the meaning of hearsay and its devastating consequences. A middle-aged woman leaves the danger of the city only to find it lurking in her own backyard. And in the novella, "Into the Fire," Mickelbury follows the life of a southern family as they strive for success amidst the violence and uncertainty of 1960s Detroit. 
In beautiful and exacting prose, Mickelbury gives voice to an often-overlooked coterie of women in this superb collection of fiction.

God's Will and Other Lies: Stories

BLF Press, LLC

This first book in the ground-breaking Mimi/Gianna mystery series introduces the protagonists and from the beginning, their natural antagonism takes center stage: Lieutenant Gianna Maglione heads the Hate Crimes Unit of the Washington, DC police department while Mimi Patterson is the city's best known, it not most well-liked, investigative news paper reporter. She sees it as her job to find the truth and tell it--because the public has a right to know. For Gianna, too much information in the public domain can drive a criminal underground, allowing him--or her--to escape justice. Reporters and cops are used to being natural enemies. They expect it. What they don't expect is

Keeping Secrets: A Mimi Patterson/Gianna Maglione Mystery (The Mimi Patterson/Gianna Maglione Mystery Series)

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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