The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX's Empire:

"The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience."--Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench

After her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first. This heart-pounding literary thriller interweaves two compelling murder mysteries: one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana's Sugar Cane country, and a cold case involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.

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 received an Edgar Award nomination, and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Achievement, are among Attica Locke's works. She worked on the Fox program Empire as a writer and producer. Attica was born in Houston, Texas, and now resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.