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Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Asheville, NC, private eyes Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson are asked by an eighty-year-old client to investigate the suspicious death of her brother, they warn her there is little chance of success. Paul Weaver died nearly seventy years earlier. The only documentation she has is the sole surviving copy of a coroner's report stating his death was caused by an accidental fall while hiking. There's a red flag: local son Weaver knew every inch...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past - and they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran cop. They deploy humor both to bind them together and to deflect insults. Plus, it helps deal with the tragedies their work uncovers. Such a tragedy interrupts...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Blackman and Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality: no clients. So when partner Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt at the historic, freed-slave commune The Kingdom of the Happy Land, Sam Blackman reluctantly agrees. Hunting the elusive edible, he stumbles into a rotting log with a skeleton hidden inside. As intrigued as Sam is, this isn't his case ..."--
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Robertson: follow Professor Janice Wainwright, who's suing a surgeon for malpractice, and catch her in activities that undercut her claim. When Wainwright visits Connemara, Carl Sandburg's home in Flat Rock, N.C., and climbs the arduous trail to the top of Glassy Mountain, Sam believes he has the evidence needed to expose her-- until he finds the woman semi-conscious...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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"Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam not only brought the guilty to justice but found meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases....
6) Fatal scores
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Once the most polluted waterway in Western North Carolina, the toxic Pigeon River now runs pure, thanks to environmental activism. But when a water analyst is found murdered in the river, and a local festival is rocked by death threats, fire, and beatings, it is clear that someone wants to disrupt the progress of the peaceful town and its future environmental efforts. Detective Sam Blackman, an Iraqi war vet, and his partner and love interest, Nakalya...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
To ease his conscience, Sam agrees to help with a fundraiser, a nighttime ghost tour of the legendary haunted sites of Asheville, North Carolina. What starts as a harmless charity event turns into murders mimicing old ghost tales. Is the murderer his friend, as evidence suggests, or a serial killer bent on retribution or a specter from the past?
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Sam Blackman is an angry man. A chief warrant officer in the criminal investigation detachment of the US military, he lost a leg in Iraq and has been outspoken in his criticism of his medical treatment. Then, ex-marine and fellow amputee Tikima Robertson walks into his hospital room, hinting that she has an opportunity for Sam to use his investigative skills. But before she can return, Tikima is murdered, her body found floating in the French Broad
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