Trudy Nan Boyce

Assigned to the cold-case murder of a blues musician whose death had been ruled a drug overdose, rookie homicide detective Sarah "Salt" Alt considers new evidence from a convicted felon who Sarah helped put behind bars.

"A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt confronts...