Locke, Attica
Summary: 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. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2004
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Summary: 9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark.Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2019
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Summary: Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lansdale 2017Lansdale, Joe R.
Summary: "It's 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River, their small town is instantly charged with tension. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2010