The Crime Writers’ Association

Historical Dagger 2018

Shortlisted


Thomas Mullen

Lightning Men

Published by: Little Brown

The second instalment of a brilliant series exploring the inherent racism that Atlanta’s first black police officers struggled against in 1950 sees white officer Denny Rakestraw join Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith in facing Klansmen and drug gangs to investigate two murders and a vicious assault.

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