5 Minutes and 42 Seconds

By Timothy Williams

Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school and her husband returns from work, "businesses" that everyone knows are mere fronts through which he launders his drug-dealing money. But as the emotional and sexual secrets of her family come to the surface, she can no longer deny that her life is not all that it seems. While family members point fingers at one another, the real threat may come from the outside, specifically from Smokey, a mixed-race twenty-year-old high school dropout and would-be rapper whose issues with sexual and racial identity fuel his inner rage.

Written by a daring young author with a compelling voice, 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds is a fast-paced and edgy thriller that explores the questions of identity and sexuality with refreshing vigor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Mar 2, 2010
• ISBN: 9780062003553

Timothy Williams

Crime Writers' Association Award–winning author Timothy Williams has written six crime novels set in Italy featuring Commissario Piero Trotti as well as two novels set in the French Caribbean: Another Sun and The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe. Born in London and educated at St. Andrews, Williams has taught at the universities of Poitiers in France, Bari and Pavia in Italy, at Jassy in Romania, and most recently in the French West Indies. The Observer placed him among the ten best modern European crime novelists.

Reviews for 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds

[bluehibachi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book very much, it's a great gay, black read. Definitely not high brow, trashy - yes. Has some great lines! A page turner.

[peterhare · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book very much, it's a great gay, black read. Definitely not high brow, trashy - yes. Has some great lines! A page turner.