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The case of a missing Black college student who has disappeared from her all-white sorority pulls Darren out of an early retirement, the third and final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning New York Times-Bestselling  author Attica Locke. Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop, but believes he’s got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the potential indictment ...

Abseits des Highway 59 in Texas dröhnt in Genevas Café unablässig der Blues aus der Jukebox, und Stammgäste und müde Trucker bekommen einen anständigen Ochsenschwanzeintopf serviert. Eine halbe Meile die Straße runter in Wallys Eishaus sieht das Bild anders aus: Konföderierten-Flaggen, Pin-up-Girls und Countrymusik. Als innerhalb einer Woche im nahe gelegenen Bayou die Leichen eines schwarzen Mannes und einer jungen weißen Frau gefunden werden...

Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justiceLos Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)“A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented plot.... Attica Locke [is] a writer wise beyond her years.”
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Wir schreiben das Jahr 1996, Bill Clinton ist gerade wiedergewählt worden und in Houston steht eine Bürgermeisterwahl an. Wie üblich konzentriert sich der Wahlkampf auf Pleasantville - das afroamerikanische Viertel der Stadt, das seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1949 fast jedes Rennen entschieden hat. Axel Hathorne, ehemaliger Polizeichef und Sohn des Gründungsvaters von Pleasantville Sam Hathorne, steht kurz davor, Houstons erster schwarzer Bürge...

* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace.And yet it is his mother's reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an all-white sorority...

* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace.And yet it is his mother's reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an all-white sorority...

Texas 1981, Ronald Reagan ist Präsident, Jay Porter ein erfolgloser Anwalt mit einer Strip-Mall-Kanzlei. Entschlossen, den Geburtstag seiner schwangeren Frau Bernie unvergesslich zu machen, mietet er einen Kahn an und nimmt sie mit auf eine Mondscheinfahrt. Plötzlich hören sie Schreie, Schüsse, sehen wie ein Körper aufs Wasser trifft. Porter eilt zu Hilfe und rettet eine verängstigte Frau aus dem Bayou. In seiner Jugend war er ein Black-Power...

The trhilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird: Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing - but the boy's family of white supremacists is the real target. Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have headed 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 black. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from anothe...

HEAVEN, MY HOME setzt dort an, wo "BLUEBIRD BLUEBIRD" aufhört. Auch diesmal geht es um ein Hassverbrechen. Nur soll es in Marion County von einem Afroamerikaner an einem weißen Kind begangen worden sein. Der afroamerikanische Texas Ranger Darren Mathews ist auf der Suche nach dem 9-jährigen Levi King, der allein in der Dunkelheit des riesigen Caddo-Sees in einem Boot verschwunden ist. Als Letzter hat ihn Leroy Page gesehen, der hilflos mitanse...

Ranger Darren Matthews investigates the disappearance of the son of an Aryan Brotherhood member in the aftermath of Trump's election, venturing into a part of Louisiana where the law is less important, and asked to play the dangerous game of also gathering evidence to take down the Brotherhood. Timely, racially-charged and stylish. Locke is also the author of "Bluebird, Bluebird".

The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing--but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.rget.

The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing--but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target.rget.

A Guardian Book of the YearAn FT Best Book of 2019 A Sunday Times Book of the YearWhen the young son of an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang captain goes missing, Ranger Darren Mathews has no choice but to investigate the crime. Following the election of Donald Trump, a new wave of racial violence has swept the state. Dark, swampy and filled with skeletal trees, Caddo Lake is so large it crosses into Lousiana. This is deep country and the rule o...

Mit einem Abschluss in Princeton und zwei Jahren Jurastudium hätte Darren Mathews leicht einen Platz in der Elite der afroamerikanischen Anwälte einnehmen können. Stattdessen folgte er dem Beispiel seines Onkels, um Texas Ranger zu werden. Auf Drängen eines Freundes im FBI fährt er nach Lark. Was zunächst wie ein doppeltes Hassverbrechen in einer winzigen Stadt in Texas aussieht, entpuppt sich als ein komplizierter Fall. Eines der Opfer ist Mi...

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When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact 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 from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawye...

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A powerful novel about the explosive intersection of love, race and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning TV show "Empire".

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