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A Rock and a Hard Place (Detective Barrett Raines Mysteries Book 1) by Darryl Wimberley is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Rock and a Hard Place (Detective Barrett Raines Mysteries Book 1) about?
Barrett Raines is a black detective on an isolated police force in Deacon Beach, a sweltering enclave on the Gulf Coast of northwestern Florida. Barrett's worked all his career to live up to the faith Romana Walker, Deacon Beach's eternal Homecoming Queen, showed in him when she pushed Barrett onto the all-white force in the face of local and bigoted opposition. Seven years later, Raines has made a place for himself and his schoolteacher wife in the hard-bitten community--to all appearances they
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Darryl Wimberley
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466836877
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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