Grace

I loved this book! The East Bay in the 70s, cops and Black Panthers and informants and a murder, what's not to like. Quite a complex take on race and class for what is really a murder-mystery, so it was right up my alley. I liked the complexity of the characters, the dialog was spot-on, and it had one of the things a good murder-mystery should have: I could have figured out who did it if I had been paying close enough attention. Sherrell does a great job of painting a portrait of a slice of time in Oakland, and the East Bay Area.