STATEWIDE – Find out which books to cozy up with this winter – turn to NJN’s Another View Bookshelf and solve the mystery with a glimpse at some of the latest detective books on the market. Another View Bookshelf airs on Tuesday, December 21, at 6:30 pm, and Wednesday, December 22, at 11:30 pm.

The Blackbird Papers by Dr. Ian Smith
Dr. Ian Smith is the medical correspondent for NBC’s Nightly News, The Today Show and Today in New York, the station’s number-one-rated early morning news program. Smith writes a weekly health column for the New York Daily news and is the medical columnist for Newsweek Magazine. However, Smith is also the author of the compelling new thriller The Blackboard Papers. Recipient of rave reviews, Smith’s book is about the murder of an African-American professor at Dartmouth whose brother, an FBI agent , is intrigued with his late brother’s research on blackbirds and takes on the case. Smith sits down with Another View to discuss his inspiration for the book, his life as an author and what it has been like to grow up with a twin brother.

Dying In the Dark by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Valerie Wilson Wesley is an award-winning and best-selling author of mystery and fiction. Her new book Dying in the Dark continues an internationally acclaimed mystery series about private investigator Tamara Hayle. Tune into Another View as Wesley discusses the latest crime her recurring character must solve and why she believes readers always want more of Tamara. Other books in the series include When Death Comes Stealing, Devil's Gonna Get Him, Where Evil Sleeps, No Hiding Place, Easier to Kill and The Devil Riding. A Newark native, Wesley shares the struggles many African-American mystery writers must endure to earn respect in the book publishing world and explains why she continues to use Newark as her backdrop. Wesley is also the author of the Blackboard bestseller Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do and the Essence bestseller Always True to You in My Fashion.

Little Scarlett by Walter Mosley
Crime novelist Walter Mosley has gone and done it again. With works translated into twenty-one different languages and nineteen critically acclaimed books, Mosley dazzles readers with yet another killer success. Published in July of 2004, Little Scarlett is the latest addition in the popular Easy Rawlins mystery series. According to Newsday, “Little Scarlett is tightly woven, as propulsive as a bullet, a book that’s almost literally impossible to put down . . . with Little Scarlett, Mosley has effectively opened up a new dimension, weaving murder, race and the conflicting pulls of the streets and of the family into a kind of tapestry illustrating Easy’s inner life.” The novel, set five days after the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, unravels the murder of an African-American woman killed for rescuing a white man from a black mob. Mosley is an active voice in the black community in the ongoing effort for racial equality. On this episode of Another View, he discusses whether or not race will matter in the twenty-first century through the lens of his own life experiences.

Another View airs the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm and the following Wednesday at 11:30 pm. Another View is streamed on the web site at www.njn.net. Please check the web site for broadcast dates and times on NJN’s digital channel. Closed captioning has been provided for your convenience.

Linda L. Coles is the executive producer of Another View.