From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s
Empire:
“
The Cutting Season
is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Wench
After her breathtaking debut novel,
Black Water Rising
, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with
, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first—a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier.
was nominated for a
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.