* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *** A FINANCIAL TIMES
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 TIMESTexas
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.
