Warn Me When It's Time

Name: Warn Me When It's Time
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Cheryl A. Head
ISBN: 9798212026963

Author: Cheryl A. Head

Series: Charlie Mack Motown Mystery Series #1

Narrator: Stephanie Weeks

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 08/23/2022

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Private Investigators, Lgbtq+, African American & Black Fiction

Synopsis

A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan, has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and Black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies.The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His children—suspicious of law enforcement’s treatment of Muslims and afraid of reprisal—hire Charlie Mack and her team of investigators to find their father’s murderers.The Mack team begins to hunt down the clues in this local hate crime, but they aren’t prepared when they realize that those clues are pointing to a widespread conspiracy that runs through elected state officials and up to the highest levels of national leadership FBI agent James Saleh returns to help the Mack Agency infiltrate and take down a homegrown militia hell-bent on starting a race war in America.

About Cheryl A. Head

Cheryl A. Head is the author of six novels in the Charlie Mack Motown mystery series, as well as a stand-alone novel, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel, which was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist in both the African American Literature and Historical Fiction categories. She is originally from Detroit but now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where she navigated a successful career as a writer, television producer, filmmaker, broadcast executive, and media funder. When not writing fiction, she is a passionate blogger and user of Twitter, and she regularly consults on a wide range of diversity issues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betty

I love a good series. It’s great when you have multiple books with characters that you already love, and storylines that you want to continue. That’s why I was glad to see Warn Me When It’s Time (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery #6) by Cheryl A. Head. In this book we get to revisit many of the characters......more

Goodreads review by Della B

Homegrown terrorists are in the crosshairs of the Mack Detective Agency. Charlie Mack and her crew are employed by the Pashia family to find the person responsible for their father’s death. He was killed in a bombing at his mosque. Once Charlie finds the two men involved she is asked by an FBI task......more

Goodreads review by Betty

Goodreads review by Angel

Cheryl Head continues to blow my mind with each new instalment in this captivating series. Charlie Mack and her badass team of investigators are working with the FBI to solve a mosque bombing and a murder. They also want to stop hate groups from targeting religious places of worship and people of co......more

Goodreads review by Monica **can't read fast enough**

All I can say is that this series is a favorite-chef's kiss... Where you can find me: •(♥).•*Monica Is Reading*•.(♥)• Twitter: @monicaisreading Instagram: @readermonica Goodreads Group: The Black Bookcase......more

Quotes

“I prefer to read crime series in chronological order…But Cheryl A. Head’s chilling and prescient Warn Me When It’s Time, the sixth novel featuring the private investigator Charlie Mack, has me questioning this ingrained belief, knowing there are several book-length investigations to catch up on, preferably by bingeing them.” New York Times

Awards

Anthony Award
IPPY Silver Medal