01878cam a2200325 4500 546492398 TxAuBib 20191003120000.0 170214s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017032152 9780316363297 hardcover 0316363294 hardcover (OCoLC)972606541 YDX eng YDX BTCTA AZZPT GAP TXN NPC VTL OI6 TxAuBib Locke, Attica. Bluebird, bluebird : a novel / Attica Locke. First edition. New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2017. 307 pages ; 25 cm. 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 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. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America. 20191003. Texas Rangers Fiction. African American police Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Texas, East Fiction. Mystery fiction. Noir fiction. TXGAI