Wimbey's Corner is a novel centered in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois during the early 1940s.  Most of its characters reside in Wimbey's Corner, a small Black Evanston housing development owned by Eskeridge Wimbey, a wealthy Black man.  The book's principal characters are Eskridge Wimbey; Wayne Hunter, who moved to Chicago from Kentucky; Mackenzie Sweet who aspires to be the world's oldest Negro; Claude Bonfils, a prince of Chicago pimps; Electra Wenders, a single mother, and Tommy Brown, a sailor.  Much  of the book's tension arises from the question of whether Wayne is the  right kind of resident for the Corner, and how that question plays out  in the lives of the principal characters and other residents of Evanston and Chicago during WWII.

 

Crime Pays 1; Crimes Pays by Twinz

Manny Black fled the notorious streets of Colon, Panama as a deadly fugitive. With nothing but a plan to make it rich in the Big Apple, Manny used the power of his gun to pave his way. After crossing dangerous paths with a group of Cuban gangsters and meeting the love of his life, Manny becomes the leader of the M3 Boyz. Under the direction of his hotheaded brother Rico, the massive gang of hungry street soldiers reign terror on the East Coast until, the Marielitos, a Cuban organized crime family, puts things into a lethal mix of murder and mayhem. Their rags to riches story is filled with an inside look at urban love, treachery, and a passion for cash. With a host of characters that most men would idolize and many women want to love; this book finally provides the answer to that age old question... Does crime really pay?
 

Sleepless Nights (The Drew Smith Series)

Trial attorney Drew Smith, a solo practitioner, takes on shady clients solving cases fraught with danger and romantic intrigue. Through Sleepless Nights the urban legal wizard, while frolicking with an exotic dancer, succumbs to a midlife crisis. Haunted by nightmares foreshadowing an awakening reveals an empty life but Smith finds solace with therapist Zöe Settles.
Smith is pressed into service when a vicious robbery leaves three dead and the city enraged. Drew Smith and his devoted sidekick Julio Mejia work to free his young client on the trail of a crazed gunman responsible for a growing body count. The gunman and the dancer combine forces to bring Smith down and Smith faces the fight of his life. sleeplessnightsnovel.com
 

The Agreement by Roosevelt D Simmons