2021 Crime, Mystery, & Thrillers By Black Americans
- Under Color of Law (Trevor Finnegan, #1) by Aaron Philip Clark
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene #1) by Stacey Abrams
- These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
- They Can’t Take Your Name: A Novel (A Wrongful Conviction Novel) by Robert Justice
- All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- The Three Mrs. Greys (Three Mrs. Greys #1) by Shelly Ellis
- Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) by Colson Whitehead
- The Perfect Ruin by Shanora Williams
- Blood Grove (Easy Rawlins, #15) by Walter Mosley
- Wolf Point (Ashe Cayne #2) by Ian K. Smith
- The Man Across Eight Mile by D’Andre Walker
- Gone Missing in Harlem by Karla F.C. Holloway
- Out of Crisis by Richard Caldwell
- As the Wicked Watch by Tamron Hall
- All That Is Secret (An Annalee Spain Mystery, #1) by Patricia Raybon
- Runner (Cass Raines, #4) by Tracy Clark
- Deceptive Justice (Victoria Justice Mysteries #2) by Andrea J. Johnson
- A Shepherd of Wolves by R.J. King
- Power In The Blood by Hiawatha Bray
- The Arrangement (Plainclothes Tootsie Mystery #1) by M. Ravenel