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Heaven, My Home
Attica Locke
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A Waterstones Thriller of the Month
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
'Political crime fiction of the highest order' - SUNDAY TIMES
'A propulsive and compelling novel' - GUARDIAN
Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; instead he found himself all alone, adrift on the vastness of Caddo Lake. A sudden noise - and all goes dark.
Ranger Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little 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. With Texas already suffering a new wave of racial violence in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, a black man is a suspect in the possible murder of a missing white boy: the son of an Aryan Brotherhood captain. In deep country where the rule of law only goes so far, Darren has to battle centuries-old prejudices as he races to save not only Levi King, but himself.
'One of America's finest novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'A searingly exciting story' - SUNDAY EXPRESS
Reviews
<b>One of America'
<b>A powerful, angry, important book. Attica Locke is a major talent</b>
<b>Highly charged and fantastically drawn</b>
<b>Attica Locke'
<b>A tightly plotted crime novel centring on the disappearance of a child, and a blistering look at race in Donald Trump'
<b>The most celebrated African-American writer of crime fiction. Although her books are about the black experience in the US, they are universal in scope ... a consummate storyteller</b>
<b>Attica Locke combines a searingly exciting story with an intelligent exploration of racial prejudice in the US, righteously angry, but never simplifying the issues involved</b>
<b>Locke deftly shows how crime novels are the perfect place in which to explore the tensions between different people and communities. Her insightful exploration of a post-Trump world offers something genuinely new</b>
<b>A superb thriller</b>
<b>Incredible</b>
<b>A propulsive and compelling novel, worthy of comparisons to Walter Mosley ... Locke's exploration of Matthews's predicament digs deep into the tension between "the impulse to police crimes against black life and to protect black life from police"
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