Charlotte Justice

Stormy Weather was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 2001. In it, Macavity Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Paula L. Woods crafts a masterful mystery featuring Charlotte Justice, a scrupulous detective in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. During the tense aftermath of the Rodney King riots, pioneering African American filmmaker and social activist Maynard Duncan dies of natural causes--or so it seems. But Charlotte uncovers a possible connection to a nurse recently convicted of killing several elderly black men. Her investigation becomes more complicated when she digs up secrets from Duncan's past that cast light on the darkest sides of Hollywood. As Charlotte sifts through the scandals and hidden truths, narrator Patricia R. Floyd provides a determined voice that further enhances this riveting tale.

Torn between her proud African American family and colleagues who still can't deal with diversity, LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice returns to an investigation she once had to leave behind. Thirteen years before, Justice's husband and child were murdered in their own driveway. Now Charlotte is on edge again, bedeviled by bloody memories, a violent incident involving a fellow officer, and a cold case that turns red-hot. In this pivotal installment in her acclaimed series, Paula L. Woods returns at full throttle.