Ebook City of Angels - Flame Tree Publishing

It is 1924. Sam Lacy, a tough homicide detective, follows his own code of conduct in the racist and corrupt Los Angeles police department. Sam's beautiful girlfriend has been murdered, and a sadistic predator is attacking young Chinese women. Are the crimes connected, and can Sam stop the killers before powerful forces stop him? Sometimes a good detective cannot allow the law to stand in his way.

Sam moves through the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles with the help of an extraordinary trio: Sam's partner, Lonnie, a handsome detective whose carefree attitude hides a restless past beyond the law; Sam's friend, Edward Bixby, a brilliant man whose key criminal work is done outside the books because LAPD would never hire a black man for a murder investigation; and Susan, Sam's sister and moral compass, a war widow and mother who follows the clues herself. The story unfolds in the film capital of the world, a city that attracts innocent people with wide-open eyes and killers with cold hearts; the City of Angels.

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