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* 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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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.
