Author: atticalocke

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 he’’s alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him – and all goes dark. Darren … died. A sudden noise distracts him – and all goes dark. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous…

A “heartbreakingly resonant” thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today). “In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it.”-Ann Patchett When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules — a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, … 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 away…

An Edgar Award–winning author delivers a mystery “dripping with Southern gothic atmosphere” (USA Today): Two tragic murders from separate centuries intertwine at Belle Vie, a Louisiana plantation. “Great writing, the kind that gives you goose bumps” (Los Angeles Times).