Inner city blues - Paula L. Woods

Meet Charlotte Justice, a black woman in a very white, very male, and sometimes very hostile Los Angeles Police Department. Forty-eight hours into the LA riots, she and her fellow officers save prominent curfew-breaking black doctor Lance Mitchell from a beating at the hands of white officers. But that proves to be just the corner of a more ominous picture when the body of Cinque Lewis is found nearby with the good doctor's wallet beneath it. Lewis, a one time radical, had years ago murdered Charlotte's husband and daughter but had then dropped out of sight...