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.
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 The triumphant finale to Locke's Highway 59 trilogy... A searing portrait of political and racial tensions in Trump's America * Bookseller * PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR 'Locke is building a compelling body of work. In this age of enduring and renewed racial tensions, we need her voice more than ever * Guardian * A superb thriller... Locke's message of injustice is the more convincing for being conveyed with restraint * Times * An expertly plotted triple whodunit * Sunday Times * One of America's finest crime novelists ... A beautifully wrought mystery * Daily Mail * This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtful as it is fast-moving. Attica Locke has bags of style, and sings the blues on every page -- Mick Herron, author of SLOW HORSES