num_pages: 344
description: Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force. As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel. In RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being acclaimed as 'a great writer' THE TIMES
language: English
title: Right as Rain
titlecomplete: Right as Rain (Derek Strange and Terry Quinn #1)
genres: American, Noir, Mystery, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 5098
places: Washington, D.C.
series: Derek Strange & Terry Quinn
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Gumshoe Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: CWA Silver Dagger, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 2. Platz International
publisher: Orion