Soultown — Mercedes Lambert

In a hip, noir mystery that spirals deep into L.A.'s Koreatown, Whitney Logan, Esq., makes her return. She's teaming up again with her sexy Chicana sister-in-arms, Lupe Ramos, who's just wrapped up a few months' jailtime. They've each gone in different directions--and now the only thing they share is the dream of making a fresh start in the melting pot that is L.A.--the town where everyone gets along, eating Thai food and listening to salsa music, right? Wrong. The pair is soon back in the hot seat as Whitney sets out to reunite Lupe with her son. Lupe's brother, Hector, a marginally famous boxer, has parked the kid with his new girlfriend in the backstreets of Koreatown. When Whitney and Lupe show up to reclaim him, they find themselves in the middle of an armed robbery. And with another corpse on their hands. Soon the vibrant reds of Koreatown turn bloody as the killer faces his toughest, and most deceptively alluring, enemy yet.