Eleanor Taylor Bland was an African-American writer of crime fiction. She was the creator of Lincoln Prairie, Illinois police detective Marti McAllister.
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Dead Time
1993
ISBN 9780451404275
Gone quiet
1994
ISBN 9780312110185
Slow Burn
1994
ISBN 9780451179449
Done wrong
1995
ISBN 9780312130534
Keep Still
1998
ISBN 9780312961725
See no evil
1998
ISBN 9780312169107
Tell No Tales
1999
ISBN 9781568957562
Shades of Black
2005
ISBN 9780425200148
Scream in Silence
2001
ISBN 9780312974947