* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES ** WINNER OF THE CRIME FICTION LOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR EDITOR'S CHOICE **** LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD **** A FINANCIAL TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **** AN OBSERVER CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR **'One of America's finest crime novelists' - DAILY MAIL'Lyrical, complex and deeply engaged... this is top-quality crime fiction' - OBSERVER'A searing story about race and class.Locke's writing is exceptionally vivid' - SUNDAY TIMESTexas Ranger Darren Mathews has handed in his badge, and his own mother is the cause of his fall from grace.Yet she may also be his salvation. A black girl at a nearby college is missing, her belongings tossed in a dumpster.A bloodstained shirt discovered in a woodland clearing may be the last trace of her, and Darren's mother wants him 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 the girl, it is his own family's history that may be brought painfully into the light.
