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In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke made one of the most stunning fiction debuts in recent memory. Now she returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated by over a century.

Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation-turned-tourist attraction where the past and the present coexist uneasily. Outside the gates, an ambitious corporation has been snapping up sugar cane fields from struggling families, replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found in a shallow...

Bei Einbruch der Nacht verwandelt sich der Caddo Lake im texanischen Marion County in ein bedrohliches Labyrinth aus Bayous und stummen Zypressen. Als der neunjährige Levi King mit seinem Boot nicht zurückkehrt, soll Texas Ranger Darren Mathews ermitteln - denn Levi ist der Sohn eines Captains der Arischen Bruderschaft. Und gegen die braucht das FBI dringend eine Anklage, bevor Trump Präsident wird und sich die Grenzen der Justiz verschieben.

Mathews, entsetzt darüber, was eine Handvoll verängstigter Weißer einer Nation antun kann, stapft durch einen Sumpf aus Hass und...

Attica Locke a writer and producer of FOX s Empire delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice

Los Angeles TimesBook 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. Los Angeles Times

Atmospheric deeply nuanced... akin to...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX's Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter--hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising--return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win.

Fifteen years after his career-defining case against Cole Oil, Jay Porter is broke and tired. That victory might have won the environmental lawyer fame, but thanks to a string of appeals,...

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, sind die Schuldzuweisungen schnell zur Hand.

Der Texas Ranger Darren Mathews vermutet eine Verbindung zur Arischen Bruderschaft und...

WINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTION

Wall Street Journal BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX's Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter--hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising--return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win.

Fifteen years after his career-defining...

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

The Cutting Seasonis 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 Timesbestselling author ofWench

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 withThe Cutting Season, a second novel easily as...