An NAACP Image Award for IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT---and a complete list of winners!!!

CAPTION: (left to right) Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes on the red carpet at the 40th NAACP Image Awards. Photo credit: WireImage.com.

I'm excited to announce that Steven Barnes, Blair Underwood and I received the 2009 NAACP Image Award for our mystery collaboration In the Night of the Heat , the second novel in our Tennyson Hardwick mystery series! (I was also nominated for Blood Colony , my latest African Immortals novel.)
Wow. [For a complete list of winners announced Feb. ...