Guide Me Home
Published on 3. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-78816-397-2 (ISBN)
Description
* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *
** WINNER OF THE CRIME FICTION LOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR EDITOR'S CHOICE **
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD **
** A FINANCIAL TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **
** AN OBSERVER CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **
'One of America's finest crime novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'Lyrical, complex and deeply engaged... this is top-quality crime fiction' - OBSERVER
'A searing story about race and class. Locke's writing is exceptionally vivid' - SUNDAY TIMES
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace.
And yet it is his mother's reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an all-white sorority at a nearby college is missing, her belongings tossed in a dumpster. Her sorority sisters, the college police, even the girl's own family, deny that she has disappeared, but Sera Fuller is nowhere to be found. A bloodstained shirt discovered in a woodland clearing may be the last trace of her. And Darren's mother wants her son to work the case.
Disillusioned by an America forever changed by the presidency of Donald Trump, Darren reluctantly agrees. Yet as he sets out to find a girl whose family don't want her found, it is his own family's history that may be brought painfully into the light. And a reckoning with his past may finally show Darren the future he can build.
** WINNER OF THE CRIME FICTION LOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR EDITOR'S CHOICE **
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD **
** A FINANCIAL TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **
** AN OBSERVER CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **
'One of America's finest crime novelists' - DAILY MAIL
'Lyrical, complex and deeply engaged... this is top-quality crime fiction' - OBSERVER
'A searing story about race and class. Locke's writing is exceptionally vivid' - SUNDAY TIMES
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace.
And yet it is his mother's reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an all-white sorority at a nearby college is missing, her belongings tossed in a dumpster. Her sorority sisters, the college police, even the girl's own family, deny that she has disappeared, but Sera Fuller is nowhere to be found. A bloodstained shirt discovered in a woodland clearing may be the last trace of her. And Darren's mother wants her son to work the case.
Disillusioned by an America forever changed by the presidency of Donald Trump, Darren reluctantly agrees. Yet as he sets out to find a girl whose family don't want her found, it is his own family's history that may be brought painfully into the light. And a reckoning with his past may finally show Darren the future he can build.
Reviews / Votes
A searing story about race and class. Locke's writing is exceptionally vivid, bringing to life her characters' anxieties at a time when white supremacy feels like a growing threat * Sunday Times * Written against the backdrop of Trump's America, Guide Me Home is a dark portrait of the nation's ever-present racial tensions by one of its finest crime writers * Daily Mail * Lyrical, complex and deeply engaged with the simmering tensions beneath (and above) the surface of American life, this is top-quality crime fiction * Observer * Powerful and distinctive... Locke's juggling of societal wrongs and a turbulent crime narrative is as sure-footed as ever * Financial Times * A suspenseful mystery and a searing portrait of race and justice in America * iPaper * This is compelling political crime fiction * Guardian * Locke's writing skills shine through in this crime thriller * Daily Express * Vivid and affecting * Daily Telegraph * Locke's writing skills shine in this crime thriller * Sunday Express * A rich and satisfying conclusion to one of the great American crime series... Guide Me Home is thrilling historical crime fiction and concludes a series that has much to say about a period of history that still feels like a chaotic blur, even as it threatens to return * TLS * Locke wraps up her remarkable series with authenticity and wisdom * Los Angeles Times * A powerful finale to an unforgettable series * Wall Street Journal * A powerful conclusion to her Highway 59 trilogy, Attica Locke's Guide Me Home should earn her new readers... A deeply impressive, moving novel and a highlight of the year * Irish Times * Fearlessly blends the political with the emotional... A novel destined to reflect its time but timeless in its skill, honesty and hope * Washington Post * At once a gripping thriller and a blistering portrait of racial tensions in Trump's America * iPaper * Beautiful... I stand in awe of Attica's prose - surely one of the finest wordsmiths currently working in literary crime -- Leonora Nattrass, author of BLUE WATER A fantastic piece of work. I love a damaged hero and that's exactly what we get with Darren Matthews, a real old-time cowboy. All the characters are vivid and heartfelt, the plot is compelling, and the on point socio-political commentary adds an extra resonance that elevates this novel onto a rarified plane -- Simon Van der Velde, author of THE SILENT BROTHER An atmospheric slow burn * Crime Monthly * A strong political thread runs through the novel... You will savour this clever and well-written trilogy * Crime Fiction Lover * The triumphant finale to Locke's Highway 59 trilogy... A searing portrait of political and racial tensions in Trump's America * Bookseller * A dystopia of racism, business manipulation and prejudice soon come to the fore in a novel that has much on personal relations, notably between Darren and his mother, former wife, and current partner. Well-written and interesting, this is a good book * Critic * Locke resolves the loose ends of her award-winning trilogy of novels set along East Texas' Highway 59 in ways at once gratifying and unsettling... We've missed Attica Locke's deft and wise way with the crime novel * Kirkus * Attica Locke has produced another must-have... Compelling detective fiction with plenty to say about Trump's America -- Nick Harkaway, author of KARLA'S CHOICEMore details
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Export/Airside
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78816-397-2 (9781788163972)
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Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month; Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.