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Richard Price's Samaritan, like his Clockers and Freedomland, melds two of my favorite fiction genres: Urban ethnic and detective.

Unlike most detective stories, after you find out who the perpetrator is you know there's going to be forty or fifty more pages of book to wrap up all the urban ethnic characters' stories.

No movie version of this one yet, but I'm imagining Ray Liotta as Ray and Queen Latifah as Nerese. Your mileage may vary.