Bluebird, Bluebird
Little, Brown and Company · Paperback · August 28, 2018
A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).
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- Who it’s for
- A lean, atmospheric mystery with a hard-edged procedural pulse and real staying power.
- Genres
- Black Mystery, Southern Fiction, Suspense
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, August 28, 2018
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A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today). "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well.
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Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders -- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman -- have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes -- and save himself in the process -- before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
Why It Clicks
A lean, atmospheric mystery with a hard-edged procedural pulse and real staying power.
Come here for
- hard-boiled procedural pressure
- a sustained, immersive read
Expect
- sharp genre signals
- performance-ready pacing
Where it sits
| Black Mystery | 71% |
|---|---|
| Suspense | 27% |
| Southern Fiction | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Police Procedurals
- Black Mystery
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Attica Locke
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- August 28, 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Police Procedurals