Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel
A NY Times Book Review Editors Choice
A Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize
A Washington Post 10 Best Thrillers & Mysteries 2017
Kirkus Best Mysteries & Thrillers 2017
Best Book of the Year-Vulture, Strand magazine, Southern Living, Book Riot, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Lit Hub, Dallas News. Minnesota Public Radio, The Daily Beast & Texas Monthly.
Coming Soon to FX as a Television Series
This Book is 1 of 2 in the Highway 59 Series. Book 2 of 2, Heaven, My Home will be released September 17, 2019.
This book will stay with you.The author draws you in from the first page to the last. Ms. Locke, paints a vivid picture of the hard scrabble life of Geneva Sweet, who opens the story visiting the grave of her late husband, and son.
"Geneva opened the shopping bag and pulled out a paper plate covered in tin foil, an offering for her only son. Two fried pies, perfect half moons of hand rolled dough filled with brown sugar and fruit baptized in grease-Geneva's specialty and Li'l Joe's favorite."
I can taste the fruit pies 'baptized in grease'. The author takes you to Texas, and you feel the weight of the drama unfolding. Its a collective narrative of sights, sounds, smells, simmering racial divides, poverty, drugs, guns and the Aryan Brotherhood fraying the edges.
Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger is under investigation and possibly suspended from the force. Rather than remaining on the sidelines, to await the outcome of the investigation, he travels to Lark Texas, to 'look around' as a favor to a friend. Once there, he begins to unwind the back story behind two murders; a black lawyer from Chicago and a young, white local woman.
As Darren Mathews inserts himself in the thick of the drama, the locals, most notably Geneva Sweet are skeptical. The people of Lark Texas, are life long inhabitants, and the bloodline is generational. They are not comfortable, feeling the weight of a scrutinizing eye of a black Texas Ranger. As he untangles their secrets, with the intention of fully understanding what happened. Some things are better left "unsaid."
This is a rare book that combines the wealth of an engrossing read- a Literary-Mystery-Thriller-all in one, unforgettable read.
Other Books by Attica Locke:
Pleasantville 2015
The Cutting Season 2012
Black Water Rising 2009
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