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Darktown: A Novel (The Darktown Series Book 1) by Mullen, Thomas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Darktown: A Novel (The Darktown Series Book 1) about?
The award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth delivers a riveting and elegant police procedural set in 1948 Atlanta, exploring a murder, corrupt police, and strained race relations that feels ripped from today's headlines. Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers; they aren’t allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect white cops are behind it. Their investigation sets them up against a brutal cop, Dunlow, who has long run the neighborhood as his own, and his partner, Rakestraw, a young progressive who may or may not be willing to make allies across color lines. Among shady moonshiners, duplicitous madams, crooked lawmen, and the constant restrictions of Jim Crow, Boggs and Smith will risk their new jobs, and their lives, while navigating a dangerous world—a world on the cusp of great change. Set in the postwar, pre-civil rights So
Who reads Darktown: A Novel (The Darktown Series Book 1)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mullen, Thomas
- Publisher
- 37 Ink; Atria / 37 INK
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501133879
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- True Crime, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (2,357 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13