I read this because it was on Obama's 2022 reading list, and in my experience, her does not disappoint when it comes to book recommendations. I did not realize this is a crime drama, which is a genre I read pretty widely in. The book opens with the gangland shooting of a gay interracial couple, leaving their small daughter parentless. The shooting victims are both professionals, one a journalist and the other a baker, but the fathers of the two have had brushes with crime and done jail time. They decide to find out who killed their offspring and why. The subtext is that while the sons were alive neither father accepted their homosexuality but now that they are dead they deeply regret that and want to avenge them. The process of uncovering the truth leaves a lot of people dead, most of them deservedly so but not all, and it is bloody and violent, so skip this if that is a deal breaker, but there is a lot to recommend this, with a subtext elated to race and tolerance that is well done.
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