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Ohhhh, Sis! I forgot to mention we get to actually go into the morgue in this book. TWICE, bihhhhh! Color me weird, but I love morgue and autopsy scenes in a mystery book. I guess mystery lovers can relate (as well as those who stay glued to the ID Channel/A&E), but those tantalizing scenes amplify my mood to solve some murders with whatever given protagonist. It's a rush. It's a high.
Now in real life... Hunniiiiiii, you wouldn't catch my ass NO WHERE NEAR a damn morgue! Baby, ME-NO play around the dead. Anyway, major props to Woods for this. Often times authors only allow the investigator to get the final report–instead of being present with the medical examiner. So Woods hit the spot with this. I can't express how her allowing the reader and Charlotte into the bowels of a city morgue raised my confidence in her work. She was serious about her story.
Inner City Blues (Charlotte Justice #1) by Paula L. Woods (Amazon affiliate link)
"Meet Detective Charlotte Justice, a black woman in the very white, very male, and sometimes very racist Los Angeles Police Department. The time is 48 hours into the epochal L.A. riots and she and her fellow officers are exhausted. She saves the curfew-breaking black doctor Lance Mitchell from a potentially lethal beating from some white officers ― only to discover nearby the body of one-time radical Cinque Lewis, a thug who years before had murdered her husband and young daughter. Was it a random shooting or was Mitchell responsible? And what had brought Lewis back to a city he'd long since fled?"
