Eleanor Taylor Bland (1944-2010)

Eleanor Taylor Bland, the author of a police procedural series featuring African American police detective, Marti MacAlister,

died this week.

To read tributes to Eleanor (including my own), go to:

http://theoutfitcollective.blogspot.com

Also see an excerpt from an interview that Norlisha Crawford did with Eleanor:

http://elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com