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Book Review: Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke

Book reviews By Sep 23, 2019 No Comments

Heaven, My Home, the second book in Attica Locke’s Highway 59 series, uses a child’s disappearance to devastating effect in order to explore displacement, reconciliation and just what home means to people. 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 –…

Book Review: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Book reviews By Mar 29, 2018 1 Comment

In Bluebird, Bluebird, two murders take us to a small town off Highway 59 in East Texas, where we discover what lies behind the racial tensions, which are a part of people’s everyday reality there. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules – a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working…

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke #BluebirdBluebird #BlogTour

Blog tour, Books By Oct 04, 2017 No Comments

Today I’m thrilled to be able to share an extract from Attica Locke’s latest novel, Bluebird, Bluebird, a powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice and the first in a timely new series about the cost of justice in the American South. This is taken from Chapter One:  The tiny brass bell on the cafe’s door rang…