Darktown

''A brilliant blending of crime, mystery, and American history. Terrific entertainment''
Stephen King

Darktown 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.

''Crime fiction that melds an intense plot with fully realized characters''
Daily Mail

Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white.

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.

When a poor black woman is killed in Darktown having been last seen in a car with a rich white man, no