Hidden in Plain View (a Darryl Billups mystery) / Blair S. Walker

Darryl Billups is back on the job as a reporter for the Baltimore Herald, after helping to catch a notorius killer.  Riding on the coattails of his journalistic success on that case, Billups is able to ingratiate himself with Baltimore PD to help investigate a series of deaths dubbed the Confederate Flag killings (decals placed on the foreheads of victims).  Perhaps not so coincidentally, Billups finds himself a target of the killer, but fortunately catches on and manages to extricate himself from danger.  This is a fast read, not so challenging as a mystery, but provides an interesting African-American perspective on life in Baltimore.  268 p.