Black Yéʼii (The Evil One) by Joseph Lewis
A 2025 Maxy Award Finalist for Thriller and Suspense.
“On one side, unconditional familial love supported by the camaraderie of law enforcement. On the other? Guns, drugs, and hatred. Black Ye’ii stages an epic battle between good and evil.” –Cam Torrens, award-winning author of the Tyler Zahn thriller series.
“Black Yéʼii: (The Evil One), by Joseph Lewis, is a police procedural thriller. Within the first minute of reading this story, it captures you with a brutal double murder that sets the pace for the entire novel. Blood thirsty revenge would be a charitable term, because when members of the MS-13 gang come back to town to avenge the deaths of four of their members, they are merciless killers. As police and detectives investigate the double murders, they start to connect the dots, and it becomes clear that the target of this revenge killing is a group of young men, one in particular, who apparently holds the secret to what happened on that night when four gang members were killed. We follow law enforcement, as they Sherlock the trail of blood, one that eventually culminates in a face-off. A cold-blooded thriller that will keep you reading to the end.” – Real’ Laplaine, Reviewer.
The secret of how four members of MS-13 died was supposed to keep them safe. That is, if no one spoke of it. But someone did, and now people are dying.
The police fabricated a story about the night four members of MS-13 died in a tiny home on a quiet city street almost two years previous. George Tokay and his friends were not supposed to share the secret about what really happened that night. No one was to know the truth. But someone talked, and now MS-13, ruthless and wanting revenge, is back in town, and people are dying.
Can Detectives Graff, O’Connor, and Eiselmann find the killers and put a stop to the killing before anyone else dies?
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Author Bio:
Joseph Lewis has semi-retired as a teacher, coach, counselor and administrator. He’s an award-winning author and uses his psychology and counseling background to craft thriller/crime/detective mysteries with a strong coming-of-age theme embedded within.
Born and raised in Wisconsin in a musical family of ten, he has been on stage singing and acting since fourth grade. In his profession as a principal, he opted each year to sing a song to his graduating seniors in place of a commencement address. Years later, kids and parents would recall how much “their song” meant to them.
Lewis now resides in Virginia with his wife, Kim. Together, they have three wonderful children: Wil (deceased 2014), Hannah, and Emily, and one grandson, Mason.