A hard-drinking Texas Ranger, on suspension after a racially charged standoff, heads to a small Texas town to investigate two murders on his own--one of a black man passing through and one of a white local waitress--in Attica Locke's Bluebird, Bluebird.
Locke is a writer and producer for the TV show Empire but is also a solid fiction writer; this thriller cooks right along, with strong characters to bolster the story.
What makes Bluebird, Bluebird a cut above contemporary crime writing is drawing a vivid portrait of race relations, as well as a fully realized characterization of rural Texas (Locke is from Houston).
Locke has a sequel to this one coming out, and I am eager to read more from her.
I listened to this in a good audiobook read on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
Locke is a writer and producer for the TV show Empire but is also a solid fiction writer; this thriller cooks right along, with strong characters to bolster the story.
What makes Bluebird, Bluebird a cut above contemporary crime writing is drawing a vivid portrait of race relations, as well as a fully realized characterization of rural Texas (Locke is from Houston).
Locke has a sequel to this one coming out, and I am eager to read more from her.
I listened to this in a good audiobook read on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library in New Castle, Indiana.
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