Part noir detective, family drama, and commentary on racism in 1940s San Francisco. There’s definitely an audience for this book, if you like historical mystery. The audio production was fantastic, but the actual story felt too heavy-handed for me, with chapters beginning with exposition about the times that read like an article, and it felt like the author relied too much on “tell, don’t show.” I wasn’t a fan of the ending, and I’m also still not completely sure why it’s called The Golden Gate.