carriepond 's review for:

Darktown by Thomas Mullen

4.0

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Good story. Really like Boggs. Hard to read at parts. The murder mystery interesting but really takes a backseat to the conflicts that Boggs and Smith face as 2 of Atlanta’s first black police officer. Much of the tension in the book comes not from the crime that opens the book, but how all the characters interact, especially Boggs and Smith with racist cops and civilians and skeptical members from their own race and community.