A powerful novel about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV/Channel 4 show Empire
Attica Locke is the author of Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was short-listed for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica is also a screenwriter and has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox and Dreamworks. Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Empire. She lives in Los Angeles.
Mesmerising ... original ... exhilarating ... Locke is building a
compelling body of work
*Guardian*
A superb thriller ... Locke's message of injustice is the more
convincing for being conveyed with restraint
*Times*
Tight, bright prose ... powerful ... she seems more and more like
America's most interesting crime writer
*Daily Telegraph*
Locke evokes place brilliantly, writes tangy, fluent prose ... an
expertly plotted triple whodunit
*Sunday Times*
Memorable characters, engaging prose and a soundtrack of down-home
blues make for a winning literary crime thriller
*Mail on Sunday*
Bluebird, Bluebird is absorbing and Locke's writing is beautiful
... The best crime novel of the year so far
*Metro*
What is most satisfying about this crime novel is its use of the
crime as a device with which to explore something much larger and
universal ... Locke's writing is both sharp-edged and lyrical. This
is thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to
transport
*Financial Times*
Elegant ... gripping
*Observer*
Ms. Locke is a wonderful stylist, able to conjure vivid impressions
with a single phrase
*Wall Street Journal*
The prose is beautifully rhythmic ... Locke uses her insider
knowledge of the area to really get under the skin of her
characters, in the process revealing the real beating heart of
rural Texan life ... brilliantly executed
*Big Issue*
A rich sense of place and relentless feeling of dread permeate
Attica Locke's heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and
justice in America ... an emotionally dense and intricately
detailed thriller, roiling with conflicting emotions steeped in
this nation's troubled past and present
*USA Today*
Locke is a brisk writer with a sharp eye for the subtleties of how
rural white Southerners tend to act as if their little towns belong
to them - and react harshly to black independence
*Washington Post*
One of my favourite books of the past year
*Harlan Coben, author of THE STRANGER*
This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtful as it
is fast-moving. Attica Locke has bags of style, and sings the blues
on every page. A highlight of the year so far, and the
curtain-raiser for what promises to be a compelling series
*Mick Herron, author of SLOW HORSES*
Attica Locke has both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger
Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in
corrupt world. I loved everything about this book
*Ann Patchett, author of COMMONWEALTH*
Taut where it has to be to keep a murder investigation on its toes,
this novel is also languid when you need to understand just what
would keep a black woman or man in a place where so much troubled
history lies. Locke's small town murder investigation reveals what
lies at the heart of America's confusion over race.
*Walter Mosley, author of DOWN THE RIVER UNTO THE SEA*
With Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke brings freshness and vitality
to a beloved form. From the first beautifully done scene until the
finale, this is a very propulsive novel concerning old deeds that
keep influencing the present, injustice and courage - a powerful
and dramatic look at contemporary black life in rural America
*Daniel Woodrell, author of WINTER'S BONE*
Attica Locke knows Texas, a place that has shaped both her
characters and her life. Locke's new book, Bluebird, Bluebird, is
evidence of her deep knowledge and love of her community and a deep
talent for writing hype thrillers that also manage to be timely,
relevant and keenly insightful
*Joe Ide, author of RIGHTEOUS*
Bluebird, Bluebird has the impeccable pacing, memorable characters,
and deepening sense of mystery and dread we expect in the finest
noir thrillers. But this is so much more. Attica Locke has written
a marvelous novel
*Ron Rash, author of THE RISEN*
Attica Locke has built a career on political novels wrapped in the
conventions of the crime thriller, and Bluebird, Bluebird burnishes
an already impressive reputation
*Irish Times*
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