Darktown av Thomas Mullen

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<p><font><b>''A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment''</b><br><b>Stephen King</b></font><br><br><b><i>Darktown </i>is a relentlessly gripping, highly intelligent crime novel set in Atlanta in 1948, following the city''s first black police force investigating a brutal murder against all the odds.</b><br><br><b>''Crime fiction that melds an intense plot with fully realized characters''<br><i>Daily Mail</i></b><b><br><br>Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.<br></b><br>On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city''s first black police force of only eight men. These cops are kept near-powerless by the authorities: they can''t arrest white suspects; they can''t drive a squad car; they must operate out of a dingy basement.<br><br>When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no