Chosen People

When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and signing books there. But what she gets instead is a firsthand look at the murder of a controversial African American writer. James Simpson Lee Hastings's death sends seismic shock waves through Los Angeles's black and white elite, and reveals how some of the city's well-to-do are connected in ways they'd rather leave unmentioned. But trying to unravel those connections might mean that the next time Alex's name shows up in her paper, it won't be as a byline, but in her own obituary.

Author: Karen G. Bates
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 04/25/2006
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.30w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780060559724

Review Citation(s):
Ebony 06/01/2006 pg. 28
Essence 08/01/2006 pg. 84
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2006 pg. 37

About the Author
Bates, Karen G.: -

Karen Grigsby Bates is a correspondent for Day to Day, NPR's mid-day news magazine. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. Chosen People is the second novel in the Alex Powell series.