{"product_id":"9781456769840","title":"Murder Is a Matter of Color","description":"Murder is a Matter of Color is a racially charged  murder mystery , a detective story set in an unnamed city somewhere in the United States.  The story contains violence, death, fear, the drug trade, sex, honor, and retribution.  The plot centers on a black police officer, Detective Roy Hines, and his struggle to obtain acceptance and inner peace in a bigoted community, while attempting to overcome numerous obstacles thrown in his path.  Drugs are distributed from a restaurant, one of the finer  dining establishments in the city.  The owner, Paul Palmer, is forced under the threat of blackmail and endangerment to his family, to cooperate with the drug dealers.  The local drug lord, Neal Peterson, posing as a respectable businessman is blackmailing   the owner, Palmer, into cooperating with the drug dealers by threatening harm  to his family.   Money collected from the sale of the drugs is spent on the organization of a paramilitary Force: “C.L.A.W.,” or “Civil  Liberties Are for Whites.”  This group is bent on keeping African Americans hooked on drugs and, therefore, forever downtrodden and “beneath” the  white race.  Aided  by cohorts Ralph Manchetti and Colonel Bubba Dorcey.  Peterson is determined  to wreck  havoc  by instigating racial unrest while still collecting sufficient drug money to appease his suppliers.  Peterson, through “C.L.A.W.,” stages a mass demonstration which evolves into a full-blown riot and confrontation   between the paramilitary force and the local police.  A crime that goes horrendously wrong and ends  in  brutal murder brings Detective Roy Hines and his Sergeant, James Woodson, into the picture.  Loose ends are slowly pieced together, with Woodson ultimately killed in a car wreck, discovered to have been caused  by a deliberate  tampering of the brakes.  Neal Peterson is savagely murdered.  It  can be any number of people in the novel.  The reader discovers who   the murderer is in the final  paragraphs  of the book.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140771692784,"sku":"9781456769840","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781456769840_p0.jpg?v=1763859990","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781456769840","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}