Tony Lindsay is the author of several novels including; One Dead Preacher, Street Possession, Chasin’ It, Urban Affair, and One Dead Lawyer, and a short story collection titled Pieces of the Hole.

He has published book critiques and reviews for  Black Issue’s Book Review. He was a contributor to the anthology Don't Hate the Game, the on-line encyclopedia Identity.com, and Mosiac.com. He has been published by the African American literary web-site Timbooktu.com, and the bi-monthly magazine Conversations, as well as the young adult magazine Cicada. He has a MFA from Chicago State University. He is currently an adjunct professor at Chicago State University, South Suburban College and Westwood College. '

 

 

 

One Dead Doctor
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Paperback: 172 pages
Publisher: Penknife Press (January 20, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599970120
ISBN-13: 978-1599970127
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches

One Dead Doctor - A killer is stalking young women in David Price’s community, his brother has just been released from drug rehab and living with him, his ex-wife (baby’s mama) is dating a police detective that tried to pin a murder charge on him, and his best friend has been diagnosed with heart disease. Amidst it all, the police find a young girl dead behind his house.

This third installment of Tony Lindsay’s "One Dead" series is an edge of your seat, page-turning mystery that delivers heart-pounding reading until the last page.

 

Fat From Papa's Head
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Paperback: 158 pages
Publisher: Penknife Press (September 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599970104
ISBN-13: 978-1599970103
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches

"Fat from Papa’s Head" is a collection of short stories targeted at young adults. All of the protagonists are young African American male teenagers, and young adults. The main characters in the short stories are at pivotal points in their young lives. Some of the youth are at rite of passage moments, and others are merely faced with decisions.

The collection was composed in response to the author’s conversations with incarcerated African American male youth. The discussions centered on reading materials, and the need and want for stories that reflected their lives. This collection is an attempt to meet that need and want.

 

More Boy Than Girl
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Paperback: 140 pages
Publisher: Penknife Press (January 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599970074
ISBN-13: 978-1599970073
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches

About the Book
The story of Dai Break Jones is the story of a woman born into a man’s world with aggressive ambition. She never accepted the thought that a woman had her place. Born the only child to the founder of one of Chicago’s largest street organizations, Dai Break Jones accepted her position of royalty and stood toe to toe against all foes. More Boy than Girl is Street Lit at its finest. It is a hard core story, about a hard core world.

What is Street Lit?
Street literature is fiction that employs the urban milieu or the streets. The tales are not much different than any other genre; a bit more risqué, a tad more profanity, and yes societal bad guys may be the good guys, and yes the plots may be raw and grate the nerves do to espousing current street situations, but shouldn’t literature be disturbing, shouldn’t it inform and make one  uncomfortable when something is wrong in society. Good Street Literature reports modern day concerns and issues. What’s current isn’t always comfortable. Good writers of Street Literature have always left readers unsettled; Ann Petry, Donald Goines, Louise Meriwether, Chester Himes, Dean Pharr, Claude Brown and Iceberg Slim all shake readers up a bit.  

 

One Dead Preacher: David Price Mysteries
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Urban Books (March 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933967021
ISBN-13: 978-1933967028
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches

Originally published by BlackWords, Inc. in April of 2000.

Security Firm CEO David Price is living the rewards of hard work and determination. Single, self-employed and satisfied with his life, he has it all. Things couldn’t be better. That is, until he meets sexy vixen Sugar Greer, a married woman with a dark history that she must hide and he vows to protect. When it’s all over, David and his client are left with blood on their hands. Caught in a cultic web of abuse, theft, and murder, David must get back on the streets to clear his name, a journey that will lead him to…One Dead Preacher!

An Excerpt
I often want to be the man my ex-wife and my mother want me to be: a solid guy, a good Christian brother, one that comes straight home on pay day, one who doesn’t know where the floating crap game is, one who doesn’t know who’s got the good weed or which chick gives the best head, just a regular Joe, like my old man.

Author, Tony Lindsay & Publisher, Kwame Alexnder in Philly at NAACE 2000

He has no use for the streets or the people in them. Solid as a rock. I’d bet my right arm that he never cheated on my mother. The man got up at 3:45 a.m. Monday thru Friday for thirty years. Thirty years. I’d pass him in the mornings, me coming in, him going out. He’d ask me, "Ain’t you tired of them streets yet, boy?" I would tell him no. But if he were to ask me that question now, some twenty years later, my answer would be yes, without a doubt.

In the past, the streets have always been my refuge, my place to go when I need life to make sense. I knew what to expect from street life. It was the "normal life" that kept me banging my head against the wall.

If I was more like my old man, I wouldn’t be lying here breathing oxygen through a mask with .22 caliber bullet holes in my chest, my neck, and I hope to God, in my thigh and not in my jones. My neck is bandaged so I can’t look down, but she was aiming at my jones. I think I put my thigh in the way, but I ain’t really sure. I ain’t prayed in four years, but when I woke up in this hospital room, I asked God to let it be my thigh and not my jones. Everything hurts, so I can’t really tell. When I piss I don’t know where it’s going or where it’s coming from. The nurse put the television on the Christian station. I guess she heard me calling Jesus and figured I was a Christian…

 

One Dead Lawyer (David Price Mysteries)
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Urban Books (December 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933967293
ISBN-13: 978-1933967295
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches

Security escort David Price is back after his adventures in One Dead Preacher, and he's gotten himself into another tight situation. With the reappearance of family in his life, even more is at stake for him now. When a prominent lawyer, (whom David suspects is a murderer) turns up dead, David is, once again, in the middle of the drama. Tony Lindsay doesn't disappoint fans of suspense and drama with this second book in the David Price Mystery Series.

 

Street Possession
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Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: United Brothers (February 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0971237069
ISBN-13: 978-0971237063
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches

There’s an urban battle raging in south side Chicago like never seen before. Tony Lindsay, the master of urban thrillers and mystery, brings us right into the heart of this war in his hot novel, Street Possessions.

Mike Brown, south side’s resident crackhead, is a man who’s made a deal with the devil. He’s sold his soul, and now he’s got nowhere to go but down. Problem is, he’s about to take a few others with him—two prostitutes and a disillusioned police detective who can’t always be distinguished from the criminals he’s supposed to arrest. Can this unlikely trio face the unthinkable, escape their fate and save their lives?  

 

Chasin' It
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ISBN:0974363677
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: July 2004
Publisher: Urban Books

The life and loves of Terri Parish are filled with obsession, glamour, hot sex and very dangerous men. Once a Las Vegas headliner, she now lives on the streets of Chicago, an ex-convict, and junkie looking for any way to make a few dollars and score another hit. The trouble is, Terri still desires the lights of a Las Vegas stage and the adoration of fans. When she meets up with Mo-Red, an ex-lover and a chief in one of Chicago's largest street gangs, she sees an opportunity to regain some of her former, glamorous life. After all, a fool can see an opportunity, but a survivor figures out how to take it. Terri considers herself a survivor at the very least. She knows that stealing from royalty means death, but she has to take this chance of a lifetime. With Mo-Red's money and his drugs, only one question remains--will she get out of Chicago alive?

Chasin' It is an urban story twisted with jealousy, addiction, denial, obsession and deception. From Las Vegas's Caesars stage to life on Chicago's mean streets, the lessons are hard and many for Terri in this rite of passage tale like no other. Chasin' It will keep you spellbound from the first pages and fascinate you with a story like nothing you've ever read before. It is truly the wildest street story of them all.

 

Urban Affair
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Urban Books; Reprint edition (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1601620845
ISBN-13: 978-1601620842
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches

For Chance Bates, life doesn't come with too many certainties. He learned this while growing up in the foster care system, being shifted from one home to the next. What he does know is that only the strong survive, and he is determined to make something of himself and marry the girl of his dreams.

His girl, Patrice Trent, teaches Chance that life is wonderful. She should know. She grew up in an upper-class black family where her opportunities have been abundant. But when her family learns that Chance was born to a mother with a severe mental illness, they are determined that Patrice will not taint their bloodline with the likeness of his family's defective genes.

Meanwhile, after spending years in a mental institution and working to get her life together, Chance's mother Sharon Bates resurfaces to find him just as his life is spiraling out of control. After so many years of not being there for her son, will she now be able to help him, or will her appearance ruin everything he has achieved?

Eventually, they all come to a point where they must take a chance of a lifetime.

 

Pieces of the Hole
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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Third World Press (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0883782693
ISBN-13: 978-0883782699
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches

The hip-hop culture on the south side of Chicago links these short stories that are otherwise very different from each other in subject and approach. Stark scenes of gang violence, drug use, and prison life are contrasted with light and humorous stories, and the grittiness of urban life is softened by the preoccupations of adolescence, the chance for romance, or the ordinary moments of family life.

 

Prayer of Prey: A Supernatural Tale of Suspense
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Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Black Words Inc.; 1 edition (July 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1888018259
ISBN-13: 978-1888018257
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches

Tony Lindsay returns with a second urban thriller. Disillusioned by his career and devastated by a stupid mistake that ended his engagement, Johnny Lee put away his detective badge and turned to the Chicago streets for some no-strings attached comfort. As a prostitute in Chicago, Pamela Bell's mind was preoccupied with survival. Mary Beth Olsen longed for a normal life and struggled to stay off the streets. Bound by ancestral legacy, desperate pacts and the evil deeds of others, all three must confront emotional fears and physical danger as they attempt to escape their fate and save their lives.