02079cam a2200361 i 4500 623746810 TxAuBib 20200923120000.0 171211s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316363273 paperback 0316363278 paperback (OCoLC)1014382895 YDX YDX eng eng rda rda rda YDX GZD rda YDX TxAuBib GZD TxAuBib rda Locke, Attica, author. Bluebird, Bluebird / a novel By Attica Locke. First Mulholland Books paperback edition. New York : Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, 2018. 303 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20200923. Texas Rangers Fiction. African American police Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Thrillers. Noir fiction. Fiction. TXKPL