Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential but mostly ignored American murder - a “ghettoside” killing, one young Black man slaying another - and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of Black Americans murdered that year. Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Named one of the 10 best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Chicago TribuneĪ masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America
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