All The Sinners Bleed, Cosby - B+

                      This near-perfect novel features Sheriff Titus Crown, a Black man who returns to Charon County after an education at UVA and Columbia, and a decade in the FBI. The county on the Virginia coast is majority Black, but still living in the throes of its white supremacist past. Everywhere Titus turns, he runs up against the inherent prejudices of the south. His department is called out for a shooting at the local high school. There are two casualties, a beloved white teacher who had been there for thirty years and the troubled younger man of color who shot him. An examination of their phones and computers show that the two had been involved for over a decade in a pedophile murder ring that shocks Titus to the bone. The evidence reveals that there was a third man, outfitted in a wolf mask, also involved. The department begins the hunt for victims and the third murderer. As they pursue the killer, he strikes back at anyone who may know who he is and at people close to Titus. The finale is a nail biter, but one with a good ending. This book is a brilliant treatise on being a Black man in the south. Highly recommended.