All of Pelecanos's books deal, on some level, with relations between people of different races, backgrounds, and outlooks. Right as Rain, the first book featuring Derek Strange and Terry Quinn places the relations between blacks and whites in Washington D.C. in the center of it's main storyline. Strange is hired by the mother of a slain police officer to clear her son's name. He was off-duty at the time of his death, and shot by a fellow DC police officer. The dead officer was black. He was shot while holding a gun on a white civilian. The officer who shot him was also white, and while he was cleared of all charges, he ended up leaving the force. Because of the murky circumstances surrounding the shooting and the circumstances leading up to it, both officers reputations suffer.
The secondary storyline in Right as Rain was a little less satisfying than most Pelecanos stories.
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