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Negro and an Ofay
Negro and an Ofay | Danny Gardner
5 posts | 4 read | 10 to read
In 1952, after a year on the run, disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice wakes up in a jailhouse in St. Louis. His friends from his hometown secure his release and he returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts a straight job as a process server and eventually crosses paths with a powerful family from Chicago's North Shore. A captain of industry is dead, the key to his estate disappeared with the chauffeur, and soon Elliot is in up to his neck. The mixed-race son of Illinois farm country must return to the Windy City with the Chicago Police on his heels and the Syndicate at his throat. Good thing he's had a lifetime of playing both sides to the middle.
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RichieNarvaez
Negro and an Ofay | Danny Gardner
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A strong voice, a solid plot, and complex characters. One of the best current crime fiction books I've read in a while, the POV here is about something, not just out for a kicks and bullets.

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Liberty
A Negro and an Ofay | Danny Gardner
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Morning reading. 📚

Mixedreader Interesting! Added to my TBR! 7y
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Matilda
A Negro and an Ofay | Danny Gardner
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🔔📚🔔 great read only $3.99 ebook amazon/b&n! Perfect for fans of Walter Mosley (with some action scenes added).

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lovintoread
A Negro and an Ofay | Danny Gardner
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟. I have to give it the five stars because the writing was an excellent departure from the style I have been reading of late. With some Mississippi slang thrown, which to be honest threw me at first, the writing incorporated slang and proper English. I can see this becoming a different type of detective series. Gardner makes Elliot to become a friend I want to read more of.

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Matilda
A Negro and an Ofay | Danny Gardner
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The goat is mopey over her bath so I get to read in peace. For now.

LeahBergen That face! 😂 7y
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