Black heat

By Norman Kelley

Subjects: Nina Halligan (Fictitious character), Missing persons, fiction, African americans, fiction, Women private investigators, African American women, Black nationalism, Missing persons, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Halligan, nina (fictitious character), fiction

Description: Civil rights leader Malik Martin stood the middle ground between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. In 1971, as his organization was set to launch a new program offering unity and economic empowerment, he was assassinated. Twenty years later, when private eye Nina Halligan is hired to search for Martin's missing daughter, she suddenly finds herself shadowed by thugs and the NYPD.