The final book in the award-winning Highway 59 series from the author of Bluebird, Bluebird and Heaven, My Home

* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *

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.

"The triumphant finale to Locke's Highway 59 trilogy... A searing portrait of political and racial tensions in Trump's America" - Bookseller

"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

"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