MYSTERY

Windy City Dying: A Marti MacAlister Mystery

by Eleanor Taylor Bland

Minotaur: St. Martin's. 2003. 320p. ISBN 9780312320485.

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pap. $21.99.In 1992's Dead Time, Bland introduced the first African American female police detective in crime fiction, Marti MacAlister, recently transferred from Chicago to the small town of Lincoln Prairie, IL. In her tenth outing, Marti confronts challenges from her past involving her late husband and a group of children, now teens, she had counseled a few years ago. Bland also edited the 2004 anthology Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors. (LJ 12/02)

Reviewed by Charlene Rue , Nov 01, 2016

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