Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger whose badge gets him little trust on either side of the law in East Texas, is sent to the small town of Lark, where two bodies have surfaced in days: a Black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman. Working under suspension and against local resistance, Darren picks at the town's racial arrangements — including the Aryan Brotherhood's hold on it — to find how the two deaths connect. The first Highway 59 novel; it won the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
Author: Attica Locke · Original publisher: Mulholland Books (New York), 2017
