angry intense utterly spellbinding the powerful follow on to keep secrets formally TV reporter Penny Petco berries sensational inside look at Washington dc. no one knows better than a police lieutenant Guyana magline head of the hate crimes unit that you America's majestic capital city is a city divided by race and by class. no one has seen these divisions more clearly than Afro-American Mimi Patterson in her work as investigated newspaper reporter work that puts her in constant professional jeopardy with her lover diana. beyond the marvel facade of the city on the side streets off the y boulevard's amid disenfranchise Mimi even investigates fragmentally reports of hate crimes against certain kinds of women Diana already knows about three murders and they're in high crime hi violence Washington DC these killings are a little police priority. after all street prostitutes are worthless throw away women who cares if they're being stabbed to death who cares how many are dead or why? Deanna and Mimi care passionately. and when they're investigations unexpectedly reach into a high echelons of government then cover a lethal adversary and face each other in a kind of uncompromising professional collision each of them dreads.