Devil a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Series #1) in Bloomington, MN

It's 1948, and Easy Rawlins is on the trail of a missing woman in South Central L.A.
Devil in a Blue Dress
honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect.