Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke
In this thrilling crime novel, 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 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, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's 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--and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's 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.
"Captivating" --People
A Best Book of the Year:
New York Times * Houston Chronicle * NPR * Wall Street Journal * Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel * Book Page * Financial Times * Kirkus * SheReads * Sunday Times * LitHub * Guardian * Book Riot * South Florida Sun Sentinel
Longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Book Prize
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316363396 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316363391 |
| Title | Heaven, My Home |
| Author | Attica Locke |
| Series | A Highway 59 Novel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mulholland Books |
| Year published | 2020-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |