num_pages: 316
description: This debut novel in a new series featuring black LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice will make mystery fans wanna holler ― with delight. Meet Detective Charlotte Justice, a black woman in the very white, very male, and sometimes very racist Los Angeles Police Department. The time is 48 hours into the epochal L.A. riots and she and her fellow officers are exhausted. She saves the curfew-breaking black doctor Lance Mitchell from a potentially lethal beating from some white officers ― only to discover nearby the body of one-time radical Cinque Lewis, a thug who years before had murdered her husband and young daughter. Was it a random shooting or was Mitchell responsible? And what had brought Lewis back to a city he'd long since fled?Charlotte's quest for the truth behind Cinque's death will set her at odds with the LAPD hierarchy, plunge her into the intricacies of everything from L.A.'s gang-banging politics to its black blue-bloods, and lead her into deep emotional waters with Mitchell's partner (and her old flame), Dr. Aubrey Scott.In Charlotte Justice, Paula L. Woods has created a tough, tart, but also vulnerable heroine sure to draw comparisons to such classic figures as Easy Rawlins and Kinsey Milhone, but a true original as well.
language: English
title: Inner City Blues
titlecomplete: Inner City Blues (Charlotte Justice, #1)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, African American, Crime, Mystery Thriller, American, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 174
places: Los Angeles, California
series: Charlotte Justice
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company