*** THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING** HIGHWAY 59 **SERIES *

• WINNER OF THE CRIME FICTION LOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR EDITOR'S CHOICE
  LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD
  A FINANCIAL TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR
  AN OBSERVER CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **

'One of America's finest crime novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'Lyrical, complex and deeply engaged... this is top-quality crime fiction' - OBSERVER
'A searing story about race and class. Locke's writing is exceptionally vivid' - SUNDAY TIMES**

Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge, and his own mother is the cause of his fall from grace. Yet she may also be his salvation. A black girl at a nearby college is missing, her belongings tossed in a dumpster. A bloodstained shirt discovered in a woodland clearing may be the last trace of her, and Darren's mother wants him to work the case.

Disillusioned by an America forever changed by the presidency of Donald Trump, Darren reluctantly agrees. Yet as he sets out to find the girl, it is his own family's history that may be brought painfully into the light.

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Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on **the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.