num_pages: 359
description: Derek Strange is a black ex-cop in Washington D.C. who now makes a living running his own private detective agency. He is hired to investigate the killing of an off-duty black policeman by a white police officer -- a killing that was supposedly accidental, but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force. In the course of that investigation the white officer, Terry Quinn, becomes Strange's friend and then his partner. Together they try to uncover what really happened that night, when Quinn came upon a confusing and treacherous crime scene. Along the way they confront the kingpins of a flourishing drug trade and some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.
language: English
title: Right as Rain
titlecomplete: Right as Rain (Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, #1)
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime
ratings_count: 5097
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: Little, Brown and Company.