R. Barri Flowers
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State's Evidence
Type of edition: Paperback
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In Eagles Landing, California, Assistant District Attorney Beverly Mendoza has been selected to prosecute a disturbing case, the brutal murder of a local judge and the rape of his wife. The defendant, Rafael Santiago, once vowed to get revenge against the judge for sending him to prison, and the judge’s wife picked him out of a line-up. It seems like an open-and-shut case. But appearances can be very deceiving.At the same time, homicide detective Stone Palmer is investigating the rape and strangling of a young woman. Career criminal Manuel Gonzalez is in custody for the crime, but he pulls the rug out from everyone when he claims he’s the one who murdered the judge. Could it be a case of mistaken identity? Or two desperate, violent men out to manipulate and beat the system?
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"Death By Trial And Error"
Type of edition: Short story
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"Death by Trial and Error," is a tense thriller about a woman consumed with hatred and vengeance after learning that her husband is leaving her for another woman.
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Justice Served
Type of edition: Paperback
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There is a killer on the loose in Portland, Oregon. Men accused of domestic violence are being beaten to death after escaping the system of justice. The key suspect is Criminal Court Judge Carole Cranston, who longs for passion and promise in a relationship were a dark cloud not hanging over her head. Homicide Detectives Ray Barkley and Nina Preston must race to solve the case before more victims die at the hands of a most determined foe.
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Persuasive Evidence
Type of edition: Paperback
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Persuasive Evidence is a legal thriller. When her teenage son is arrested for a double murder, Assistant District Attorney Jordan La Fontaine calls upon her late husband's law partner to defend him, even as she is given the assignment of prosecuting a cop accused of the brutal murder of his ex wife in an interracial crime that is sure to be explosive. Both cases will test Jordan's courage and conviction.
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Male Crime and Deviance: Exploring its Causes, Dynamics, and Nature
Type of edition: Hardback
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Male Crime and Deviance explores the nature, dynamics, precursors, dimensions, and causes of male agression and criminality. Such areas examined include masculinity, testosterone, firearms, and substance abuse in relation to crime.
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Murder, at the End of the Day and Night: A Study of Criminal Homicide Offenders, Victims, and Circumstances
Type of edition: Hardback nonfiction
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Murder, at the End of the Day and Night is a multifaceted probe of murder offenses, offenders, victims, and characteristics of homicide in American society. Within this context, the focus will be on examining the nature and causes of murder, the relationship between firearms and lethal violence, the criminal justice system and homicide offenders, different types of murders and murderers, antecedents and correlates to homicidal and violent behavior, and a theoretical basis for murder.The book is divided into six parts. Part I examines the dynamics of murder including its nature; guns, substance abuse, and murder; and murder offending and the criminal justice system. Part II explores domestic murder such as intimate homicide, infanticide, parricide, and other family involved homicides. Part III discusses interpersonal and societal murder crimes including workplace homicides, bias-motivated homicides, and terrorism and murder.
Part IV focuses on youth and murder including youth gangs and homicide and school killings. Part V examines particular categories of killers including sexual killers, serial killers, mass murderers, and self-killers. Part VI explores theories on murder. Tables and figures accompany the text throughout the book to illustrate major points
A complete index is also provided for simple access to information and material found in the text. The text should be a useful resource for law enforcement professionals, criminal justice students, mental health experts, social workers, educators, writers, and laypersons with an interest in the study of homicide and its implications on society.
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The Scheme of Things
Type of edition: Trade
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Dwayne Bradford is a Detroit, Michigan advertising executive for one of the city's largest African American advertising firms, just shy of his 40th birthday. With his on again, off again marriage to wife, Surecka, on the rocks, he inadvertently becomes involved with a beautiful African American homeless woman—unaware that she has a hidden and deadly agenda. He soon finds himself involved in a vicious power struggle for the future control of the advertising firm.Life become further complicated when his wife leaves him. He suspects she is seeing another man and finds himself consumed with jealousy and determination to learn his identity. When a colleague turns up dead, Dwayne is implicated in the crime and becomes a fugitive as he seeks to get answers to all the questions that have turned his life into a living hell—while being pursued by the police and the real killer.
Here's what other authors have to say about the book and its author:
"A suspense-filled descent into chaos..." — Eleanor Taylor Bland, author of Whispers in the Dark
"R. Barri Flowers is an engaging storyteller who writes with enough panache to keep you wondering who done it." — Tracy Price Thompson, author of Black Coffee
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Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes: Serious Criminality by Juvenile Offenders
Type of edition: Hardback nonfiction
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Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes: Serious Criminality by Juvenile Offenders is an examination of today's serious, chronic, and violent youthful offender. This vital book explores the relationship between youth and serious, violent antisocial behavior in America, examining its antecedents, its onset, and its situational and motivating factors.From the Editor's introduction: "The increasingly serious nature of juvenile criminal behavior has been felt across the country as youth violence, violent youth gangs, drug-related offenses, and other delinquent and criminal conduct has changed the way we regard minors and delinquent behavior. Recent times have seen an explosion in school tragedies, juvenile homicides, teen battering, date rape, youth family violence, teenage alcohol and drug abuse, and related youthful offenses."
Kids Who Commit Adult Crimes, divided into four parts, takes an incisive look at these issues and more.
 | Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century
Type of Edition: Hardback
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Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century is a true crime/reference book.From the assassination of President William McKinley on September 6, 1901, to the mass killing at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, the 20th century saw many murderous events that are difficult to contemplate but have become a part of the national history. This reference book is divided into three parts. Part One, arranged chronologically, details 53 of the most famous murder cases of the 20th century in the United States. In Part Two, over 300 entries (alphabetically arranged by criminal) provide descriptions of crimes and are subdivided into male, female, and juvenile murderers; pair and group murderers; hate crime murderers; and school killings. Part Three features crime events related to over 40 selected victims. Cross references guide the reader to additional information. An index is included.
 | The Loves of His Life
Type of Edition: Trade
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The Loves of His Life is a heartwarming African American contemporary-mainstream love story that is sure to move the reader for its hauntingly descriptive beauty, sentimentality, romance, regrets, and second chances.Janine Henderson is an African American single mother, 36, and a senior editor for a large minority-owned publishing house in New York. She is sent to California to persuade African American photographer-author Richard Lowrey to honor the terms of his multi book contract after a tragedy strikes his family.
Still hurting from a bitter divorce and general distrust of men, Janine finds herself attracted to Richard. She tries to help him overcome his own pain and return to his work, even as a relationship develops between them.
Richard Lowrey, 38, was once a prize-winning photographer. His talent and will to live left him after his wife and young daughter were killed in a car accident in which he miraculously survived. Now, three years later, a new woman has come into his life—one who is like his beloved late wife, yet so different.
He must come to terms with his tragedy while falling in love with Janine. She also returns his love, though Janine fears she can never measure up to the woman he gave his heart and soul to. If that is not enough, she must also deal with having deceived Richard for his own good, though it could cost them any chance for a future together.
This African American contemporary novel is, in fact, two heartwarming love stories in one. Richard recounts his love for his wife, Kassandra, and daughter, Sheena, while slowly allowing them to be put to rest, as Janine becomes the center of his attention, along with her daughter, Lisa.
 | Out of Tragedy
Type of Edition: Trade
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Out of Tragedy is a heartwarming contemporary/mystery tale of tragedy, grief, guilt, lost love, friendship, bonding, romance, soul searching, and a second chance at love.Stephanie Grayson Russell is a 45-year-old widow and successful author of African American children's books living in Detroit, Michigan. When her 25-year-old daughter, Rachel, is killed in a hit and run accident, Grayson turns to Rachel's fiancé, Leonard King, for shared grief, comfort, and friendship. What she hadn't counted on was developing romantic feelings for the 37-year-old police detective. These feelings are returned in full force leading to passion, guilt, confusion, secrecy, and eventually love and togetherness.
Leonard Evan King, an African American fraud investigator for the Detroit Police Department, is determined to see to it that the hit and run driver responsible for his beloved Rachel's death is brought to justice. At the same time he comes to know and appreciate her mother, Grayson, in ways he never could have imagined—finding a love he thought was buried forever with Rachel.
Judith Wagner is a 40-year-old white part-time student, wife, and mother. She did not know when she fled the scene that the person she hit and killed with her car was her psychology professor, Rachel Russell. But the damage had already been done and she feared the consequences should she come forward and admit her guilt and the fact that she had been drinking the night of the accident. So she keeps the secret to herself, hoping the whole thing will somehow disappear—even as she struggles with guilt, family problems, and the fear of detection.
Each of the principal characters of the novel must come to terms with the tragedy and their interrelationships as the investigation into Rachel's death unfolds.
 | Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution
Type of Edition: Paperback
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Runaway Kids and Teenage Prostitution is a concise and accessible new text that examines the correlation between runaway children and teenage prostitution in the United States from a criminological, sociological, and psychological perspective. The author takes a systematic approach to defining and describing the differences between youth who run away from home and those who leave institutional settings and distinguishes the difference between runaway and throwaway children. A careful examination of teenage prostitution among girls and boys helps to illuminate the special problems faced by children who have run away. In addition, the author discusses laws related to runaways, teenage prostitution, and the sexual exploitation of minors as well as the criminal justice response to the problems. A chapter is devoted also to the issues of runaway youth and teenage prostitution in other countries.
 | In The Dark of Night Type of Edition: PB |
A historical thriller about the 19th century serial killer, Jack the Ripper. In 1888 in New York City, the search for a serial killer of prostitutes comes to an end with the capture of Doctor Jack Lewiston, a respected surgeon and madman. But before he can go to trial, Jack escapes from custody and flees the country to London, England. Brought out of retirement to track him down is ex-NYC homicide detective-criminologist, Henry Marboro. In charge of the original investigation in the "Ripper Murders," Henry lost his objectivity when his younger sister was one of Jack’s victims. Now on a renewed mission, Henry must find Jack Lewiston and bring him back to America—dead or alive—hopefully before more prostitutes become the victims of the multiple sexual killer. In the process, Henry develops an attraction for a mysterious and beautiful American nurse, Loraine Broderick,who lives in London. Unfortunately, Jack also has his sights set on her as a target of his madness—in addition to ladies of the night streetwalking in Whitechapel in London’s East End.
 | Positive I.D. Type of Edition: PB |
A legal thriller. Portland, Oregon Assistant District Attorney Victoria Kinsey is assigned the case of prosecuting a man charged with murdering a local judge, Harold Hamilton, and raping the judge’s wife, Carolyn. The Hispanic suspect, Aurelio Estebanoza, who once vowed revenge against the judge for sending him to prison, is picked out of a lineup by Carolyn Hamilton. At the same time African American Detective Sergeant Philip Patterson is investigating the rape and strangulation of a local young woman. A Hispanic suspect, Julio Lopez, is taken into custody. What seems to be an open and shut case for Kinsey and Patterson is suddenly challenged when Lopez, a career criminal, claims he murdered the judge. Is it a case of mistaken identity? Or two desperate men looking to manipulate the system for their own interests? Kinsey and Patterson must risk their own lives to learn the truth.
 | Justice Served Type of Edition: PB |
A legal and vigilante thriller and policemystery/suspense novel. Male batterers of women are being beaten to death by a bat wielding female vigilante. Each victim had recently been on trial for domestic violence-related charges, but was set free through plea bargains, technicalities, or acquittal. Portland Police Bureau Detective Sergeant Ray Barkley and his partner African American Detective Nina Preston investigate the killings. Among the list of suspects is Criminal Court Judge Carole Cranston, who presided over the trials of all the victims and has dark secrets she is in no hurry to share. Barkley soon develops an attraction to the beautiful Carole, and vice versa, even as the case heats up and more signs begin to point toward Carole as the person the press has dubbed The Vigilante Batterer Killer.
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Sex Crimes, Predators, Perpetrators, Prostitues and Victims Type of Edition: Hardcover |
A comprehensive criminological and sociological examination of sexual criminality in America. It joins a growing body of research that, in recent years, has focused on the study of sex crimes and their dynamics apart from general crimes. However, unlike most such literature that often explores specific types of predatory sex-related crimes such as incest or rape, or sexual exploitative crimes such as prostitution and child pornography, this book studies the broad range of sex crimes as both a distinct classification of crime and as individual sex offenses. It examines in depth sexual criminality, its nature, characteristics, dimensions, and ramifications in American society. Within this context, the book will address both recognized and little-known sex crimes, the magnitude of such crimes, sex offenders and victims, theories on sexual criminality and sex criminals and the criminal justice system. The purpose of this book is to bridge the gap of existing works on sexual criminality, examine the relevant issues and dimensions of sex crimes, criminals, and victims, and shed new light on the study and implications of sex-related criminal behavior.
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When Night Falls Type of Edition: PB |
A psychological thriller and police procedural. Angela Leighton, 35, is an African American FBI psychologist/profiler who returns to her hometown of Portland, Oregon to assist police in finding a vicious serial killer who hunts down and tortures black and white women in pairs. Angela hopes she can use this time to repair an embittered relationship with her sister. She also becomes involved with the lead investigator—a white homicide detective named Kenneth Garrison. In the end, Angela realizes that she may hold the key to unraveling a murder mystery that has the city of Portland in terror. Can she positively identify the killer and apprehend him before she also becomes a victim of this madman?
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Deadly Secrets in the Motor City Type of Edition: PB |
A female private detective mystery. Jackie Jones, 35, is an African American private eye. A former cop with the Detroit Police Department, she is attractive, tough, streetwise, witty, and romantic. She is currently involved in an interracial relationship with a homicide detective. Hired by her ex-husband, Prosecuting Attorney Frank Jones, to prove his new wife is having an affair, things get complicated when she finds him dead in her house with a suicide note in his mouth. She is determined to prove he was murdered and in the process unravels a mystery and deadly secrets that endanger her life.
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Domestic Crimes, Family Violence and Child Abuse: A Study of Contemporary American Society McFarland, September 2000 |
This book examines domestic criminality. Part I is an introduction on domestic criminality. Part II discusses domestic fatalities, battered women and men, conjugal rape, and elderly abuse. Part III explores of child maltreatment by neglect and sexual abuse. Part IV examines symptoms of domestic criminality. Part V addresses theories, causes, and explanations of domestic violence. Part VI studies the characteristics of incarcerated domestic criminals. Part VII examines efforts to help victims and decrease the level of domestic violence.
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For Old Times' Sake Type of Edition: PB |
A nostalgic, contemporary love story set in the Pacific Northwest. Elaine Webster, 45, is a professor at Portland State University and a breast cancer survivor. Her life changes when she is reunited on a TV talk show with her first love and college sweetheart, Glen Harper, 46. The two had not seen each other in 25 years not since he inexplicably broke off their engagement, leaving Elaine devastated. After reuniting on the show, they begin corresponding by e-mail, which leads to discovery, rediscovery, passion, and second chances at love .
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Murder In The Rose City iUniverse.com, May 2000 |
Eric Zachary Elias, nicknamed E.Z., is a half-Jamaican/half Italian private eye. A former homicide detective for the Portland Police Bureau, E.Z. is six-five, hip, tough, armed with a .40 caliber Glock, and courts romance and danger with equal abandon. These qualities are put to the test in two seemingly unrelated cases of infidelity and a fugitive drug dealer, leading to doublecrossing and murder with E.Z. as the chief suspect.
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All for a Good Cause Type of Edition: PB |
A contemporary romance/love story set in the Pacific Northwest. Connie Easterbrook, 30, is the owner of the Easterbrook Seaside Inn. While attending a celebrity auction to promote literacy, she inadvertently wins a bid to have dinner with the handsome romance suspense writer, Anthony Greenwald. The two are immediately attracted to one another, but are wary of love and romance. When Anthony shows up at the inn for a room and a place to finish his latest novel, sparks turn to flames. Connie and Anthony must reconcile their pasts to have a chance for a future with each other.
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Damning Evidence iUniverse.com, April 2000 |
Kate del Graten is a Assistant District Attorney in Portland, a widow at 41, and mother of two teenage children. On the job, Kate is vying with ADA Jerrod Wresler, for the position of Chief of the Homicide Division. Off the job, she has begun an affair with her late husband's law partner, Simon Leonard. These worlds collide when Kate finds herself in the middle of two homicide cases, one in which her son is implicated.
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