The Cutting Season: A Gripping Crime Thriller-Two Murders, a Century Apart on a Louisiana Plantation Haunted by Slavery

ISBN: 0061802069

Author: Locke, Attica

Condition: New

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOXs 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 WenchAfter 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 The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first. This heart-pounding literary thriller interweaves two compelling murder mysteries: one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousianas Sugar Cane country, and a cold case involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. Black Water Rising 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.