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**One of Entertainment Weekly βs Biggest Books of Fall 2019
****In this βcaptivatingβ crime novel (People) by the award-winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird,****Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing boy β but itβs the boyβs family of white supremacists who are his real target
** 9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now heβs alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him β and all goes dark.
Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, whoβs never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and sheβs not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage.
An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas β and some of the eraβs racial attitudes still thrive as well. Leviβs disappearance has links to Darrenβs last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boyβs grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson.
Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself.
Attica Locke proves that the acclaim and awards for Bluebird, Bluebird were justly deserved, in this thrilling new novel about crimes old and new.
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"Captivating."β** People**
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"Locke's beautifully written crime fiction (which also includes "Pleasantville," "Black Water Rising," and "The Cutting Season") have a remarkable immediacy--you breathe with the characters and walk in their paths."β** Seattle Times**
"Pulse-pounding."β** Chicago Tribune**
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"With her usual aplomb, Locke tackles history and its all-too-real emotional fallout in this splendid follow-up."β** Boston Globe**
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"This is a beautifully and instantly gripping crime novel. . . . Locke is one of the emerging stars of crime fiction."β** Booklist, starred review**
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"In addition to her gifts for tight pacing and intense lyricism, Locke shows with this installment of her Highway 59 series a facility for unraveling the tangled strands of the Southwest's cultural legacy and weaving them back together with the volatile racial politics and traumatic economic stresses of the present day...Locke's advancement here is so bracing that you can't wait to discover what happens next along her East Texas highway."β** Kirkus , starred review**
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"Locke makes the complex backstory accessible. This one's another Edgar contender."β** Publishers Weekly, starred review**
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"Locke's new novel is a mystery ripe for this age. . . . What makes Locke's mysteries so good is her ability to conjure up a mood with vivid prose. Her depiction of Texas is so evocative you can practically hear the beer cans cracking open and smell the swamp water."β** Buzzfeed**
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"Both a fascinating, smartly plotted mystery and a pertinent picture of the contemporary United States, Heaven, My Home is refreshing, dour and thrilling all at once. Readers will be anxious for more of Ranger Darren Mathews. This scintillating murder mystery, set in Trump-era East Texas, with a black main cast and racial concerns, is gripping, gorgeously written and relevant."β** Shelf Awareness**
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"Locke is brilliant at creating tense mysteries where the setting is as alive, and important, as the characters without distracting-but rather enhancing-the mystery element. You get history, a great mystery, smart twists, rich characters, and a deep exploration of the justice-and injustice-system of our country."β** BookRiot**
ATTICA LOCKE is the author of the 2018 Edgar Award winner Bluebird, Bluebird; 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 J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She is also a television writer and producer, most recently for When They See Us and the upcoming adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere. A native of Houston, Locke lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
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