Paula L. Woods
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Paula L Woods (born 1953 in Los Angeles[1]) is an African-American crime novelist. Her 1999 novel, Inner City Blues, won the Macavity Award for best first mystery[2] and was followed by other novels featuring its heroine, L.A. policewoman Charlotte Justice. She has also edited an anthology of African-American crime and suspense literature, and co-edited some other African American collections with her husband, Felix Liddell.
Crime fiction novels
- Inner City Blues (1999)
- Stormy Weather (2001)
- Dirty Laundry (2003)
- Strange Bedfellows (2006) ISBN 0345457021
Editor
- Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century (1995)
- With Felix H. Liddell:
- Merry Christmas, Baby: A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury (1996)
- I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Their Love (1994)
- I, Too Sing America: the African American Book of Days (1992)
References
- ↑ page 240, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33428-5
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Categories:
- 1953 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- African-American novelists
- African-American women writers
- American crime writers
- American mystery writers
- American women novelists
- Macavity Award winners
- Writers from Los Angeles, California
- Women mystery writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
