Darktown is an award-winning audiobook about two black police officers, Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith, who are hired as the first black officers in the Atlanta Police Department in the 1940s. The audiobook follows Boggs and Smith as they face deep hostility from their white fellow officers while investigating crimes. Darktown explores important themes of race, law enforcement, and justice in the segregated South through a compelling mystery plotline. The audiobook has received praise for its page-turning crime story and examination of a overlooked chapter of history that still resonates today.