Heaven, My Home (eBook)

Propulsive and compelling ... digs deep into the tension between "the impulse to police crimes against black life and to protect black life from police" ... loving, elegiac evocations of Texas set alongside extended meditations on displacement, reconciliation and forgiveness, and on what "home" means in a place where it's an idea you can't "exactly touch"

Locke's writing is both sharp-edged and lyrical. This is thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport

Incredible

Attica Locke combines a searingly exciting story with an intelligent exploration of racial prejudice in the US, righteously angry, but never simplifying the issues involved

Mesmerising ... In this age of enduring and renewed racial tensions, we need her voice more than ever

A superb thriller

Tense, well-paced ... penetrating social commentary

A tightly plotted crime novel centring on the disappearance of a child, and a blistering look at race in Donald Trump's America.

Locke deftly shows how crime novels are the perfect place in which to explore the tensions between different people and communities. Her insightful exploration of a post-Trump world offers something genuinely new.

Magnificent ... shines an unflinching light on an ugly side of contemporary America

One of America's finest crime novelists ... a beautifully wrought mystery and an incisive portrait of the American South in the age of Trump.

A powerful, angry, important book. Attica Locke is a major talent.

The most celebrated African-American writer of crime fiction. Although her books are about the black experience in the US, they are universal in scope ... a consummate storyteller.

Uncompromising, intelligent crime fiction that refuses to sugar-coat the answers.

Attica Locke has both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honour-bound and profoundly alive in a corrupt world

Highly charged and fantastically drawn

Locke brings freshness and vitality to a beloved form ... A powerful and dramatic look at contemporary black life in rural America