A Rock and a Hard Place

Barrett Raines is a black decetive in Deacon Beach, a sweltering enclave in northwestern Florida. Seven years after Ramona Walker, the town'e eternal Homecoming Queen, helped push Barrett onto an all-white force despite bigoted opposition, Raines has made a place for himself - to all appearances he is accepted. But affections can be fickle, as Barrett discovers when Ramona is brutally rapeed and murdered, and his despised brother, Delton, becomes chief suspect for the crime. It's a non...
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Barrett Raines is a black decetive in Deacon Beach, a sweltering enclave in northwestern Florida. Seven years after Ramona Walker, the town'e eternal Homecoming Queen, helped push Barrett onto an all-white force despite bigoted opposition, Raines has made a place for himself - to all appearances he is accepted. But affections can be fickle, as Barrett discovers when Ramona is brutally rapeed and murdered, and his despised brother, Delton, becomes chief suspect for the crime. It's a non win situation for Barrett. If he can't find Ramona's killer, the locals will say he's shielding his brother. But of Barrett nails Delton for ht ecrime, they'll say he used his badge to hang a brother he hates.