Attica Locke

A Highway 59 Novel

1 - Bluebird, Bluebird (Sep-2017)
2 - Heaven, My Home (Sep-2019)
3 - Guide Me Home (Sep-2024)

Jay Porter

1 - Black Water Rising (Jun-2009)

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  Black Water Rising
  

  • Jun-2009
  • / Thriller

  Jay Porter - 1
  

  Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most pro...

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  The Cutting Season
  

  • Sep-2012
  • / General Fiction

  The American South in the twenty-first century. A plantation owned for generations by a rich family. So much history. And a dead body. Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has m...

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  Pleasantville
  

  • Apr-2015
  • / Thriller

  From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter -- hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising -- return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy poli...

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  Bluebird, Bluebird
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / General Fiction

  A Highway 59 Novel - 1
  

  A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a bla...

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  Heaven, My Home
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / General Fiction

  A Highway 59 Novel - 2
  

  In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now h...

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  Guide Me Home
  

  • Sep-2024
  • / General Fiction

  A Highway 59 Novel - 3
  

  In this stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority -- and soon finds a town that wi...

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Award-Winning Books by Attica Locke

Bluebird, Bluebird
2018 Anthony Award -- Novel
2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel