This book is the third book in the Smokey Dalton series, about an African American detective back in the 1960s in Chicago.
The mystery deals with the death of a middle class black man who is discovered in a place where there is no logical reason for him to be. His wife is not satisfied with the police investigation and asks Smokey to look into the death.
At the same time as he is looking into this and discovering other similar deaths, he is trying to act as a parent and keep Jimmy free from the street gangs that are omnipresent.
The casual and overt racism is horrifying.
Compelling read.
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