“This guy [Keith Lee Johnson] has planted himself firmly on my Favorite Author list and whew...if I was stuck reading only two authors for the rest of my life, I would want him to be one of them. Brotha man is GOOD!” —Tee C. Royal
Keith Lee Johnson is the author of several novels. His most successful novels are the Little Black Girl Lost stories. The journey to publication began at Owens Community College, and was accidental as he never intended to be an author. He began writing when a literature professor unwittingly challenged his ability to write a credible story in class one day. He picked up a pen that very day and has been writing ever since. Keith went on to graduate with honors and became the commencement speaker for the December 1996 graduating class.
Keith joined the United States Air Force in September 1978, attained a Top Secret security clearance, and served his country Texas, Mississippi, Nevada, California, Turkey, and various other places in his four years of active service.
Keith has written in several genres including, suspense/thrillers, drama, and contemporary fiction. He's also the former editor of Insight Magazine. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.
Flesh:
The Disappearance of Portia Barrington
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Paperback: 294 pages
Publisher: Dare To Imagine Books (December 17, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193582502X
ISBN-13: 978-1935825029
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Portia Barrington, the precocious fifteen year old daughter of prominent defense attorney, Myles Barrington, has been kidnapped. Portia’s bodyguard, who doubled as her chauffeur, is missing. Myles paid but the kidnappers demand another ransom. When he paid a second time, they ask for a third ransom. What’s going on? Why would kidnappers ask for three ransoms, knowing that each time they collect, they risk being captured by the police, Phoenix Perry wonders, when she’s asked to investigate her first child abduction case. When the kidnappers call again they make it clear that they are getting inside information. They know that Phoenix and her partner Kelly McPherson are running the show. Is the kidnapping a hoax? Did Myles Barrington do something so hideous to his daughter that he had to fake a kidnapping to cover it up? Former president Palmer Davidson, who picked Phoenix to find the murderer of his Supreme Court nominee, Jennifer Taylor, is a personal friend of Myles Barrington. Now Davidson is wielding his considerable influence once again to find the truth. The clock is ticking. After talking to fellow lead agent, Jack Ryan, Phoenix is stunned to learn that the bodyguard works for her husband’s private detective agency. Now Keyth is being investigated too.
Little Black Girl Lost 5
(The Diary of Josephine Baptiste)
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Urban Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601624328
ISBN-13: 978-1601624321
Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1.2 x 6.8 inches
The year is 1791 and Lauren Renee Bouvier, formerly known as Ibo Atikah
Mustafa, is still in North America—New Orleans to be exact—but she's all
alone. She has just seen the murder of the man she loves. Someone's going to
pay, not just for the death of Amir Bashir Jibril, the African warrior she
ran away with to escape an arranged marriage, but for the death of all the
men who died needlessly in the house on Bouvier Hill. They were shot down
like dogs for murders they did not commit.
Revenge can be a costly thing. Fortunately, she has plenty of money from
Beaumont Bouvier, who purchased her as a favor to the trusted friend who
captured her in Nigeria. Beaumont Bouvier is also the man who set her free.
She is now being seduced—not by a man, but by freedom, money, and the
incredible amount of power she's amassing. Will she be able to carry out her
murderous plans? Or will she become so enamored by wealth and influence that
she abandons her African heritage to embrace the American Dream?
Little Black Girl Lost 4
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Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Urban Books; Original edition (January 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601622597
ISBN-13: 978-1601622594
Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 0.9 x 6.8 inches
Little Black Girl Lost 3
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Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Urban Books; Reprint edition (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601621388
ISBN-13: 978-1601621382
Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 0.9 x 6.8 inches
After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black
Girl Lost II Keith Lee Johnson takes us back to 1950's New Orleans, into the
world of betrayal, envy, lust, and murder, where everyone has ulterior
motives. The past resurfaces in this third installment of the life and times
of seventeen year old Johnnie Wise. Truth has its consequences and Johnnie
has a lot to answer for. The innocent girl we met in the first installment
of this compelling series is gone; all that remains is the self-absorbed,
self-righteous courtesan who is now complicit in three murders. She is
surrounded by enemies who will stop at nothing to see that she pays for her
past indiscretions. Two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the money that
Sharon Trudeau (Johnnie's Stockbroker) stole is missing--the money Bubbles
gave to Johnnie after killing Sharon in a Fort Lauderdale Hotel. The cops
think Johnnie's involved and they want answers. Someone has to answer for
Sharon's murder. Will Johnnie land on her feet again? Or has her luck
finally run out?
Little Black Girl Lost 2
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Mass Market Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Urban Books; Reprint edition (September 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601620373
ISBN-13: 978-1601620378
Product Dimensions: 4 x 1.1 x 6.5 inches
After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, Keith Lee Johnson
takes us back to 1950's New Orleans, into the world of betrayal, envy, lust,
and murder, where everyone has ulterior motives. Little Girl Lost left you
in shock right up to the very end with its revealing truths of the world of
Johnnie Wise, a 15-year-old girl, who was being pursued by ruthless crime
boss, Napoleon Bentley, who will stop at nothing to have this young beauty.
Little Black Girl Lost II, begins as we find Johnnie in bed, and even though
there is a thunderstorm directly over her Ashland Estates home, she is
sleeping soundly for the first time since the murder of Richard Goode (her
mother's killer), and the subsequent riots. However, during her waking
hours, Napoleon Bentley enters her mind more often than she'd care to admit.
She wants him to bed her again, but she loves Lucas Matthews, her boyfriend.
Or is he?
Little Black Girl Lost
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Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Urban Books (May 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601620500
ISBN-13: 978-1601620507
Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1.1 x 6.8 inches
Johnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity
to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly
beautiful, with long, naturally wavy black hair, she possessed the
voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown
sugar. Johnnie had heard about Earl Shamus and his escapades among the poor
black women in New Orleans, but what she didn't know was that Shamus had
quietly made several of the girls in their neighborhood his reluctant
concubines when their youthful bodies ripened, and she was next.
Enter 1950's New Orleans, a world of betrayal, envy, lust and murder, where
everyone has ulterior motives. Take a peek at Johnnie Wise, a 15-year-old
girl being pursued by Shamus and ruthless crime boss, Napoleon Bentley, who
will stop at nothing to have this young beauty. Little Girl Lost will shock
you right up to the very end with its revealing truths.
Hell Has No Fury
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Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Urban Books (June 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601621876
ISBN-13: 978-1601621870
Product Dimensions: 4.1 x 1 x 6.8 inches
After stepping away from his thriller-suspense novels to write the
phenomenally successful Little Black Girl Lost series, author Keith Lee
Johnson has returned with some new flavor, along with some old friends, in
his latest novel, Hell Has No Fury. In This suspense laden tale, Johnson
brings back Phoenix Perry, the beautiful yet fearless FBI agent from his
earlier novels, Sugar and Spice and Pretenses.
After a long stint at desk duty, Phoenix Perry is dragged back into the
limelight when a family member is found beaten and near death. To complicate
matters, there are two dead bodies at the scene, and Phoenix's cousin is the
prime suspect. Can Phoenix find her cousin's attackers and prove her
innocence before the body count becomes astronomical? A nationwide chase
ensues, involving shady editors, crooked literary agents and host of others.
If you're into suspense thrillers, this one is not to be missed.
The Honeymoon is Over
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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Urban Books (September 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601620179
ISBN-13: 978-1601620170
Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 0.9 x 7.1 inches
After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black
Girl Lost II, Keith Lee Johnson returns with The Honeymoon Is Over. Two time
divorcee, Nelson Kennard, has finally found the love of his life--so he
thinks, but his fiance, Parris Stalls, has found another lover. Parris, a
drop dead gorgeous schoolteacher with a body to die for, has been patiently
waiting for Nelson's ship to come in. But after four years of waiting, she
began to listen to her friends who told her numerous times to leave Nelson
and find a man with some money. In comes the very wealthy Shenandoah
Armstrong who has a twenty year old score to settle with Nelson. The
fireworks begin when Parris finds out that Nelson became the man she always
hoped he'd become. She never loved Shenandoah and never stopped loving
Nelson. He still loves Parris, but will he take her back after catching her
in bed with Shenandoah? Or has he found another and moved on with his newly
found riches?
Fate's Redemption
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Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: Strebor Books; Original edition (May 17, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593090390
ISBN-13: 978-1593090395
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
In this gritty and suspenseful family drama from celebrated storyteller
Keith Lee Johnson, three brothers find their professional and romantic lives
veering out of control and heading toward a shattering conclusion.
Brothers Jericho, Sterling, and William Wise may be bonded by blood but
otherwise life has dealt them very different hands. Jericho is a drug and
munitions dealer, the leader of an elite group of former military personnel.
Sterling is an attorney who finds himself fired from his prestigious San
Francisco law firm on the same day he's expecting a verdict on a nationally
televised case that was supposed to make his career.
And William, a widowed psychologist and the youngest Wise brother, has spent
the past five years alone but is finally imagining what it might be like to
love again. Only trouble is, Terry Moretti, the woman he's dating, is white,
and she can't seem to understand the societal and familial taboos that keep
William from getting too closely involved.
Jericho has a whole other dilemma to deal with -- one that could see him
ending up in jail for a very long time. Meanwhile, Sterling's luck seems to
turn around when he meets a mysterious woman who offers him the world -- but
is he willing to pay her price?
Keith Lee Johnson's twisting, riveting plot and crackling dialogue will
captivate from page one. In the Wise brothers, he gives readers a trio of
extraordinary protagonists whose choices lead them inexorably toward a
stunning and unforgettable climax.
Sugar & Spice: A Novel
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Strebor Books; Original edition (November 18, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593090137
ISBN-13: 978-1593090135
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
This fast-paced thriller twists and turns its way through the prplexing
investigation of several mysterious murders that will have readers on the
edge of their seats.
When the set of twins are released from prison they have one thing on their
minds; to settle the score against the people who put them there in the
first place. The revenge killings begin in the District of Columbia with the
murder of the prison warden and his wife -- both found viciously beaten and
brutally dismembered -- and to continue on the opposite coast where a
socialite is found dead in Malibu. Baffled by the gruesome murders,
Detective Phoenix Perry ends her vacation early to conduct an unauthorized
investigation and embarks upon a thrilling adventure to unravel the mystery
and put end to violence.
Sugar & Spice is a gripping race to discover who is behind all of the
murder, corruption, and revenge. It is sure to keep readers guessing up to
the stunning climax. From a promising new voice in fiction, this novel will
keep spines tingling and pages turning.
Pretenses
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Strebor Books; Original edition (June 29, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1593090188
ISBN-13: 978-1593090180
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
A Supreme Court nominee has been murdered several days before her
confirmation hearing. Within twenty-four hours, another high-ranking
politician is killed -- and soon government officials are being picked off
one by one. Enter FBI Special Agent Phoenix Perry, a tough-as-stilettos
detective known to hold her own against even the most lethal of criminals.
Phoenix, already involved in another high-profile sex-abuse investigation,
is hand-picked by the President to find the assassin. Little did she know
that the two cases are related...and that the culprit knows her every move.
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