Thieves' Paradise

Eric Jerome Dickey  (1961– 2021) was the award-winning and  New York Times  bestselling author of twenty-nine novels, as well as a six-issue miniseries of graphic novels featuring Storm (X-Men) and the Black Panther. His novel  Sister, Sister  was honored as one of  Essence’ s “ 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years, ” and  A Wanted Woman  won the NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in 2014. His most recent novels include  The Blackbirds,   Finding Gideon,   Bad Men and Wicked Women,   Before We Were Wicked,   The Business of Lovers, and  The Son of Mr. Suleman.