White Butterfly
The latest mystery from the author of Devil in a Blue Dress featuring a tough black detective in L.A.'s Watts section. The time is 1956 and no one in official L.A. is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black bar girls. But when a white stripper is similarly murdered, the...
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The latest mystery from the author of Devil in a Blue Dress featuring a tough black detective in L.A.'s Watts section. The time is 1956 and no one in official L.A. is much bothered as a serial killer proceeds to murder three black bar girls. But when a white stripper is similarly murdered, the heat is finally on to arrest somebody.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B002YPAH5C
Publish date: 2009-11-25
Publisher: Audible Studios
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Race,
Fiction
Series: Easy Rawlins (#3)
White Butterfly is about a series of murders in the black community of Los Angeles in 1956. The police paid little attention to the murders since the victims were black women. But, when a white stripper, Cyndi Starr, AKA The White Butterfly is murdered then everything changes. It turns out that she...
My friends, this is why I review. Because some day, in a mere ten years, I'm going to innocently pick up this book and think, "hey, I should give this a try." About twenty pages in, I realized I had already read White Butterfly. I peeked at the resolution, and sure enough, I was right. Although, qui...