White Butterfly
Walter Mosley · first published 1992 · ISBN 9782020259880
A serial killer preys on young Black women across Los Angeles. The police ignore the murders until white society takes notice. Easy is drawn into a hunt that exposes the LAPD's indifference to Black lives and the cost of justice deferred.
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Uses a serial killer plot to interrogate systemic racism and the hierarchy of whose deaths matter to law enforcement.