Guide Me Home
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Publisher Description
* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *
'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. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace.
And yet it is his mother's reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an all-white sorority at a nearby college is missing, her belongings tossed in a dumpster. Her sorority sisters, the college police, even the girl's own family, deny that she has disappeared, but Sera Fuller is nowhere to be found. A bloodstained shirt discovered in a woodland clearing may be the last trace of her. And Darren's mother wants her son 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 a girl whose family don't want her found, it is his own family's history that may be brought painfully into the light. And a reckoning with his past may finally show Darren the future he can build.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Edgar winner Locke concludes her Highway 59 trilogy (after Heaven, My Home) with an uneven look at Black Texas Ranger Darren Matthews's efforts to track down a missing sorority girl. Darren's estranged mother, Bell, has been causing more than her typical amount of trouble: after learning that Darren tampered with the inquiry into the murder of Aryan Brotherhood member Ronnie Malvo to protect the likely culprit—an elderly Black man—she blackmailed him, forcing Darren to coerce a confession from one of Malvo's colleagues. Now, the DA has come knocking at Darren's door, attempting to indict him for obstructing justice. Meanwhile, Bell shows up to Darren's home with a lead on a new case: Black college student Sera Fuller has disappeared from the school where Bell works, shortly after filing a police report for unspecified bullying. At first, Darren can't decide whether to trust his mother's lead, but after learning more about Fuller's family history, he decides to investigate, pushing through skepticism from his colleagues. Locke's prose remains elegant, but a surplus of backstory threatens to swallow the narrative, and she ties one too many tidy bows on Darren's personal troubles—particularly his tumultuous marriage—for the conclusion to land with the desired sense of realism. This is a disappointment.
