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Bluebird, Bluebird

Highway 59 Book 1

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Pub Date Sep 28 2017 | Archive Date Oct 13 2017

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Description

Winner of the 2018 CWA Steel Dagger and the 2018 Edgar Award A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV/Channel 4 show Empire 'Dazzlingly good ... a seriously impressive writer' Observer Southern fables usually go the other way around. A white woman is killed or harmed in some way, real or imagined, and then, like the moon follows the sun, a black man ends up dead. But when it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he is drawn to a case in the small town of Lark, where two dead bodies washed up in the bayou. First a black lawyer from Chicago and then, three days later, a local white woman, and it's 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.

Winner of the 2018 CWA Steel Dagger and the 2018 Edgar Award A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox...


A Note From the Publisher
* Attica Locke is a screenwriter on the Fox show Empire
* A novel about race and politics in Obama-era America

* Attica Locke is a screenwriter on the Fox show Empire
* A novel about race and politics in Obama-era America


Advance Praise

‘Attica Locke knows Texas, a place that has shaped both her characters and her life. Locke's new book, Bluebird, Bluebird, is evidence of her deep knowledge and love of her community and a deep talent for writing hype thrillers that also manage to be timely, relevant and keenly insightful.’

Joe Ide, author of IQ and Righteous


Bluebird, Bluebird has the impeccable pacing, memorable characters, and deepening sense of mystery and dread we expect in the finest noir thrillers. But this is so much more. Attica Locke has written a marvellous novel.’

Ron Rash, author of The Risen


‘Attica Locke is a must-read author who writes with power, grace, and heart, and Bluebird, Bluebird is a remarkable achievement. This is a rare novel that thrills, educates, and inspires all at once. Don't miss it.’

Michael Koryta, author of Rise the Dark


‘Attica Locke knows how to tell a tale, her voice so direct and crisp that the dust from the side of Highway 59 will settle on your hands as you hold Bluebird, Bluebird. Nothing comes easy in Shelby County, where the lines between right and wrong blur a little more with each heartfelt page, and love and pain live together as one under the big Texas sun.’

Michael Farris Smith, author of Desperation Road and Rivers

‘Attica Locke knows Texas, a place that has shaped both her characters and her life. Locke's new book, Bluebird, Bluebird, is evidence of her deep knowledge and love of her community and a deep...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781781257678
PRICE £14.99 (GBP)
PAGES 320

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