Midnight Atlanta

Thomas Mullen

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated critically acclaimed Darktown series and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence.

Atlanta 1956.

When Arthur Bishop editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper is killed in his office cop-turned-journalist Tommy Smith finds himself in the crosshairs of the racist cops he's been trying to avoid. To clear his name he needs to learn more about the dangerous story Bishop had been working on.

Meanwhile Smith's ex-partner Lucius Boggs and white sergeant Joe McInnis - the only white cop in the black precinct - find themselves caught between meddling federal agents racist detectives and Communist activists as they try to solve the murder.

With a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr making headlines of his own and tensions in the city growing Boggs and Smith find themselves back on the same side in a hunt for the truth that will put them both at risk.

PRAISE FOR THE DARKTOWN SERIES

'A brilliant blending of crime mystery and American history. Terrific entertainment'
Stephen King

'Superb'
Ken Follett

'Magnificent and shocking'
Sunday Times

'Written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you'
New York Times

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