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"For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St. Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Each month, the madams who ran the brothels were charged with keeping houses of ill fame and fined in the city's municipal court. In effect, they were paying licensing fees in order to operate illegal enterprises. This arrangement was open; during this period, the city's newspapers published hundreds of articles about vice and...

The problems of mixed race families in a racist society are fully explored in this qualitative, narrative study. Interviews with 21 biracial couples offer deep insights into their relationships and how they perceive society has viewed their marriages. The interviewers, a biracial couple themselves, ask their subjects such questions as how their churches, families, friends and community treat them and their partners. They also examine the interactions...

From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, pretty wife, two kids. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another. FBI special agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens reunite to solve the case.

McKenzie, a former cop and now a unlicensed P.I. handles the million dollar ransom drop-off for the kidnapped daughter of his friend homicide cop Bobby Dunston. They suspect a childhood pal is involved, and discover the truth of this when the child is returned safely but their old friend is found brutally murdered.