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One of Alex McKnight's last cases, when he was a Detroit cop half his lifetime ago, ended with the imprisonment of a teenage black boy for the murder of a young white woman in a city so inured to violence that this was the only combination likely to make the evening news.
Shortly after the arrest, McKnight was invalided out of the force and never knew in detail how the conviction was achieved.
When he gets a courtesy call from the police, at the start of Let It Burn by Steve Hamilton, (Orion, £18.99), warning him that the killer has served his time and will shortly be released, Alex's doubts begin to mount.
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