Attica Locke, Author Harper $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-173586-8
Set in 1981, Lockes compelling if unwieldy debut charts the moral struggles of Jay Porter, a black lawyer in Houston, Tex. Porter, who knows far more about a murder near one of the citys bayous than do the police, doesnt want to come forward largely
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Attica Locke. Harper, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-180205-8
Locke follows her debut, Black Water Rising, with a convoluted tale about the Louisiana antebellum plantation Belle Vie and two multigenerational families that have occupied it for more than a century. Caren Gray, whose great-great-great grandfather
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Attica Locke. Harper, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-225940-0
Locke’s gripping thriller opens on election night 1996, when a teenage girl disappears from Pleasantville, a predominantly black Houston suburb. Her body is found, raising eerie comparisons to two other unsolved murders, and attorney Jay Porter,...
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Attica Locke. Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-31-636329-7
At the start of this absorbing series launch set in East Texas from Edgar-finalist Locke (Pleasantville), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is suspended from the force because he rushed, while off duty, to the aid of a friend in a dispute that turned...
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Attica Locke. Mulholland, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-36340-2
Edgar-winner Locke’s searing sequel to 2017’s Bluebird, Bluebird finds African-American Texas Ranger Darren Matthews reconciled with his wife, though to maintain their marriage, he has agreed to take a desk job at the Rangers’ Houston office, where...
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Attica Locke. Mulholland, $29 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-49461-8
Edgar winner Locke concludes her Highway 59 trilogy (after Heaven, My Home) with an uneven look at Black Texas Ranger Darren Matthews’s efforts to track down a missing sorority girl. Darren’s estranged mother, Bell, has been causing more than her...
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Attica Locke, Author, Dion Graham, Performed by , read by Dion Graham. Harper $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-177209-2
This extraordinary debut focuses on Jay Porter, a black lawyer in Houston struggling to become upwardly mobile while weighed down by a past as a civil rights worker who was betrayed and disillusioned. His moral fiber is put to the test when he's
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