Paula L. Woods is the author of various novels, including Dirty Laundry, Stormy Weather, and Inner City Blues. She is also the editor of the groundbreaking anthology Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction of the 20th Century, and several other books.
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Meet Detective Charlotte Justice, a black woman in the very white, very male, and sometimes very racist LAPD. The time is 48 hours into the LA riots, and she and her fellow officers are exhausted. She saves curfew-breaking black doctor Lance Mitchell from... SEE MORE