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with Julie Hyzy Private eye Ron Shade and news reporter Alex St. James nearly ran into each other in the final chapters of their respective adventures, A Final Judgment and Deadly Interest. Little did they know that their chance encounter would place them on a future collision course. Now, in Dead Ringer, their first adventure together, Shade is looking for Bob Bayless, a dead-and-buried executive who was recently spotted playing blackjack in Vegas, while Alex fights off the attentions of a creepy mortician who's a little too eager to show Alex his backroom moves. Although it seems their two cases couldn't be further apart, clues - and bodies - start adding up to tell a different tale. When Alex and Shade connect, the two find themselves involved in a combined case so convoluted, that even the dead don't stay buried for long. Hardcover: Five Star, November 19, 2008, ISBN-10: 1594147132, ISBN-13: 978-1594147135  
How much do you owe a past love? Private detective Ron Shade wonders after he bumps into his former lover one night. Then she's gone, like a quick goodbye kiss leaving him with only bittersweet memories of what might have been. When she turns up dead, the victim of a hit-and-run accident, Shade suspects it was something more and he's determined to find out. But whenever Shade starts to get close to the truth, someone else winds up being dead. His investigation takes a walk on the seedy side, and begins to attract the attention of some very powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure his search for the truth won't be completed. Leisure Books ISBN-10 -0843961627 ISBN-13 -978-0843961621 $7.99 October 2008 "... builds in suspense as the author unfurls his plot, nicely developing Shade's character. (Black)'s definitely an up-and-comer." -Chicago Sun-Times
"Black breathes new life -- and rare authenticity -- into the classic American PI genre." -Andrew Vachss
Black "brings the same inside knowledge of police investigations and politics readers get from Joseph Wambaugh." -Sara Paretsky
Windy City Knights is at once character-driven and rich in plot surprises, action-packed and background enriched, tough and sentimental, realistic and romantic. . . . (Black) has arrived." -Stephen Marlowe
"The plot offers plenty of hardcore action in the ring, on the streets, and with some heavyweight thugs, as it showcases the likeable protagonist.." -Library Journal
Read a Ron Shade short story (PDF) -- Dress Blues The Chicago Wolf Pack --- Mike McNamara, Mike Black, Andrew Vachss, and Zak Mucha  Lovey Award winners Michael A. Black and Julie A. Hyzy  Mike with his punching bag, left, and at Joseph Beth Booksellers, right 
 With author David Case    My beloved dog Shelby  On the radar gun 
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