Richard Price

Ray Mitchell returns to New Jersey to the housing project where he grew up to re-evaluate his life, but when he is found savagely beaten -- and refuses to press charges -- childhood friend Detective Nerese Ammons must uncover the truth.

Samaritan

Melody Izard

Ray Mitchell lived in the housing projects in Dempsey, New Jersey when he was a kid, but, despite many setbacks, he has become successful, writing for an award winning TV series about inner city high school students. He’s divorced, with a 12 year old daughter that he hardly knows, and hell bent on making life easier for folks still living in the projects. 

Richard Price knows the language and characters of the streets. His descriptions and dialog create fully formed images in your head of the characters he writes about. Drug use, adolescent angst, money woes, prison visitations, parental responsibility and sex are the main ingredients in the mean streets that run through this book.