Blair Underwood Presents
IN THE NIGHT OF
THE HEAT A Tennyson Hardwick
Novel
by
Tananarive Due &
Steven Barnes
From Tananarive's
Blog
...
"I’m excited to announce that Steven Barnes, Blair Underwood and I
received the 2009 NAACP
Image Award for our mystery collaboration
In the Night of the Heat,
the second novel in our
Tennyson Hardwick mystery series! (I was also nominated for
Blood Colony,
my latest
African Immortals novel.)" visit
blog
Book
Excerpt ...
"April didn’t use the doorbell anymore, not since I had given
her a key. At ten after seven,
she let herself in after two
quick, shy knocks. ..."
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Talented African-American authors Banks (The
Shadows),
Massey (Don't
Ever Tell)
and Due
(Blood
Colony)
explore ancestral roots in intriguing horror novellas. Banks puts a
time-travel twist into
"Ev'ry Shut Eye Ain't Sleep," in which antique dealer Abe Morgan
helps a friend, Rashid Jackson,
protect Aziza, Rashid's granddaughter, from "the shades" after Aziza
inherits her grandmother's house.
In Massey's "The Patriarch," a crime novelist brings his fiancée to
Coldwater, Miss., to introduce her to
his mom's kinfolk, but runs afoul of a powerful family secret. Due's
"Ghost Summer," the best of the trio,
also works as a YA novel. Davie Stephens, who's determined to become
a 12-year-old ghost buster, and
various family members find themselves haunted by a 1909 cold case
in Graceville, Fla. All three
contributors successfully combine scary themes with rich historical
detail. -
Publisher's Weekly (December '08)
Book Club Pick for January 2009 - Essence Magazine
“Blood
Colony will steal your breath on every impossible-to-put-down
page.
Due is masterful in crafting this thrill-ride of a tale that was
truly worth the wait!" - L.A. Banks, New York Times bestselling author of
The Vampire Huntress Legends Series
"An elegant, scary, richly exciting tale -- all that we've come to
expect from Tananarive Due." - Greg Bear, New York Times bestselling and award-winning
author of Quantico, Darwin's Radio, and City at the End of
Time
"The genius of Tananarive Due is in weaving an imaginative tale so
expertly that the reader
is convinced she has suspended time and all reason. After reading
Blood Colony, her third
installment about the mysterious sect of immortals from ancient
Ethiopia, I found myself,
once again, utterly engrossed in the heart-pounding odyssey of Dawit,
Jessica and
their daughter, Fana. Her storytelling is at once intimate and
wholly epic. Her characters,
though otherworldly and supernatural, are profoundly relatable and
eerily familiar." - Blair
Underwood, actor and director, coauthor of Casanegra
“Actor Underwood (Sex and the City,
etc.) teams up with accomplished authors
Due and Barnes to produce a
seamlessly entertaining novel.”
- Publisher’s Weekly
"CASANEGRA is a wild ride through Hollywood, heart-pounding in
every way. Smooth,
ultra-sexy Tennyson Hardwick is a man readers will want to meet up
close.
He is all heart and danger, a knight in battered armor. You will love
this novel!" - E. Lynn Harris
