Aaron Philip Clark: The Bluest Night

Trevor Finnegan is dragged back into the orbit of law enforcement when his half-brother Avery and Avery’s girlfriend Keisha disappear in Malibu. They were on their way to visit Shaun “Pop” Finnegan and celebrate their new engagement.

Pop, a retired LADP police officer, basically abandoned Avery as a boy. Now in rehab, and guilt-ridden, he’s seeking to build a relationship with him.

Avery is found badly beaten but alive, Keisha is dead. The police are working at pinning the murder on Avery, a seeming nonsensical approach, but they want a quick cut and dried resolution.

When a truck deliberately tries to run Finn and Pop off the road they know they are asking the right questions. They are forced to look at this as a conspiracy – it that stains what it touches. And the racial hatred Finn comes up against is seminal, far reaching and virulent.

Readers who appreciated the moral complexity of Under Color of Law and Blue Like Me will find this a satisfying, bruising continuation. New readers however can follow the story without having read the earlier books.

This is an excellent series and you can read my review of the first two books – Click Here