* 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.
