Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

When a young woman’s body is found hanging in a South Los Angeles construction site, Detective Elouise “Lou” Norton is assigned the case—a grim echo of her own sister’s disappearance twenty years earlier. As Lou digs deeper, she discovers unsettling ties between the dead girl and a powerful local developer, forcing her to confront the secrets and corruption that run beneath the city’s glittering surface. Driven by guilt, anger, and determination, Lou must navigate deception, race, and power as she searches for justice in a city built on illusion. Land of Shadows is a sharp, atmospheric mystery introducing one of crime fiction’s most compelling new detectives.