Title: Black Heat
First published: 1997
Description: The widow of  Malik Martin, a slain civil rights leader, asks private detective Nina Halligan  to search for her missing adult daughter. While doing so, Nina finds herself in the middle of an old FBI COINTELPRO operation called “Black Heat” and the machinations of a power-hungry black tele-evangelist, who is a former lieutenant of Martin’s.
Subjects: Fiction, African American women, Missing persons, Black nationalism, Nina Halligan (Fictitious character), Women private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, African americans, fiction