This isn't really a crime novel, but it is a very good read. The story is about a black family and a Korean family in LA and the fallout of a shooting in a convenience store in 1991. I was a baby when the race riots in LA happened, so I actually didn't know a lot about the racial tensions in the black and Korean communities in this time, but I understand the novel is based off of a real life incident that happened shortly after the Rodney King incident.
The book itself takes place about 20 years after the shooting in 2019. There are a few twists along the way, but the book never takes the easy way out. There's a lot of questions with no good answers, and she presents multiple views without taking sides. Even within both families, characters have way different reactions to things, and I totally get why the characters would each feel what they feel. It brings up a lot of themes about race, social justice, shooting like Trayvon Martin, and Black Lives Matter.