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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  A Highway 59 Novel - 1
  

  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 awa...

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  Heaven, My Home
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  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
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  A Highway 59 Novel - 3
  

  The case of a missing Black college student who has disappeared from her all-white sorority pulls Darren out of an early retirement; the third and final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning New Y...

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Award-Winning Books by Attica Locke

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