Bluebird, Bluebird (eBook)

Attica Locke (Autor)

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2017
289 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-319-2 (ISBN)

Infos

WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARDWINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 'Thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport' - FINANCIAL TIMES'An expertly plotted triple whodunit' - SUNDAY TIMES Southern fables usually go the other way around. A white woman is killed or harmed in some way, real or imagined, and then, like the moon follows the sun, a black man ends up dead. But when it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he is drawn to a case in the small town of Lark, where two dead bodies washed up in the bayou. First a black lawyer from Chicago and then, three days later, a local white woman, and it's stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.

Rezensionen

One of my favourite books of the past year

Attica Locke pens a poignant love letter to the lazy red-dirt roads and Piney Woods that serve as a backdrop to a noir thriller as murky as the bayous . . She is adept at crafting characters who don't easily fit the archetypes of good and evil, but exist in the thick grayness of humanness

A rich sense of place and relentless feeling of dread permeate Attica Locke's heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and justice in America. . . . an emotionally dense and intricately detailed thriller, roiling with conflicting emotions steeped in this nation's troubled past and present

Ms. Locke is a wonderful stylist, able to conjure vivid impressions with a single phrase.

Locke is a brisk writer with a sharp eye for the subtleties of how rural white Southerners tend to act as if their little towns belong to them - and react harshly to black independence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Highway 59 by Attica Locke
• Reihe/Serie: Highway 59 by Attica Locke
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: bernardine evaristo • black crime fiction • black detective fiction • Black lives matter • Empire TV show • Highway 59 • homicide detective • Obama's America • Racism USA • Texas Ranger • To Kill a Mockingbird • Trump's America • Walter Mosley
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-319-6 / 1782833196
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-319-2 / 9781782833192