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Publisher Description
The case of a missing Black college student who has disappeared from her all-white sorority pulls Darren out of an early retirement; the third and final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning New York Times-Bestselling author Attica Locke.
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop, but believes he’s got a shot at being a good man—if he manages to dodge the potential indictment hanging over his head and if he, from here on out, pledges allegiance to the truth. It’s a virtue the country appears to have wholly lost its grip on, but one Darren sees as his salvation. He is in the midst of remaking his life with the woman he loves, hoping for the peace of country living at his beloved farmhouse, when he is visited by someone who couldn’t hold the truth on her tongue if it was dipped in sugar, a woman who’s always been bent of tearing his life apart. His mother. Armed with a tall tale about a missing Black college student, Sera (whose white sorority sisters insist she isn’t missing at all). Darren must decide if his can trust his mother is telling the truth—and what her ulterior motive may be, and what if that motive has to do with a grand jury deciding his fate.
Darren gets his hooks into the investigation, along the way discovering things about Sera’s family and her hometown that are odd at best, vaguely sinister at worst. Hamstrung by local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers who likewise doubt the account of a missing girl, if Darren wants answers, he’ll need help from the person whom he swore to never trust again—his mother.
In this emotionally stirring conclusion to the singular Highway 59 series, Darren reckons with his life’s purpose as he’s forced to choose between his own peace and the higher call to do good.
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.
Customer Reviews
Another Great Book from Locke
Ms. Locke has a way to capture her characters as well as the East Texas landscape that just draws you in. She invites you to see the world through the eyes of her characters that expands the world of the reader in new and wonderful ways.
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