
Southland
"I''m an LA native with a lot of love for LA crime fiction, but instead of preaching to the noir choir about The Long Goodbye, I''d like to gush about Southland by Nina Revoyr. It''s a brilliant, ambitious, moving literary crime novel about two families in South Los Angeles and their tangled history between the 1930s and the 1990s. The central mystery is the death of four black boys in a Japanese-...
"I''m an LA native with a lot of love for LA crime fiction, but instead of preaching to the noir choir about The Long Goodbye, I''d like to gush about Southland by Nina Revoyr. It''s a brilliant, ambitious, moving literary crime novel about two families in South Los Angeles and their tangled history between the 1930s and the 1990s. The central mystery is the death of four black boys in a Japanese-...