Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel
A heartbreakingly resonant (USA Today)thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from the author ofHeaven, My Home
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV showEmpire, Bluebird, Bluebirdis a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
InBluebird, BluebirdAttica Locke has both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. --Ann Patchett
Attica Locke is the author of
Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was long-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction;
Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; and
The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama
Empire. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel
ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice
A Finalist for theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize
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