Attica Locke is a screenwriter who has written movie and television scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was also a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab and is a graduate of Northwestern University. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter. She is currently at work on her second book.
"I may be the luckiest writer alive, and I am certainly the most humbled.
Black Water Rising has been nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, a Strand Magazine Critics Award, and is a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. And just this morning [April 20th 2010] it was announced that the book is on the short list for the Orange Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious awards for literature in the UK.
Black Water Rising is now in paperback. Help spread the word about a little book that’s catching a lot of people’s attention. If you already have a copy, buy two more for your friends. And please pass this email along…"
Many thanks!
xo Attica Locke (Tuesday, April 20, 2010)
The
Cutting Season: A Novel
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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Harper (September 18, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061802050
ISBN-13: 978-0061802058
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and
sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical
praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke
returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two
murders separated across more than a century.
Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits
between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the past and the present coexist
uneasily. The estate's owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist
attraction, complete with full-dress re-enactments and carefully restored
slave quarters. Outside the gates, a corporation with ambitious plans has
been busy snapping up land from struggling families who have been growing
sugar cane for generations, and now replacing local employees with illegal
laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found
in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, her throat cut clean.
As the investigation gets under way, the list of suspects grows. But when
fresh evidence comes to light and the sheriff's department zeros in on a
person of interest, Caren has a bad feeling that the police are chasing the
wrong leads. Putting herself at risk, she ventures into dangerous territory
as she unearths startling new facts about a very old mystery—the
long-ago disappearance of a former slave—that has unsettling ties to the
current murder. In pursuit of the truth about Belle Vie's history and her
own, Caren discovers secrets about both cases—ones that an increasingly
desperate killer will stop at nothing to keep buried.
Black
Water Rising
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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 edition (April 20, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 006173585X
ISBN-13: 978-0061735851
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a
powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller
that readers will not soon forget.
Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client
is a low-rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a
dingy strip mall. But he's long since made peace with not living the
American Dream and carefully tucked away his darkest sins: the guns, the FBI
file, the trial that nearly destroyed him.
Houston, Texas, 1981. It is here that Jay believes he can make a fresh
start. That is, until the night in a boat out on the bayou when he
impulsively saves a woman from drowning—and opens a Pandora's box. Her
secrets put Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that
could cost him his practice, his family, and even his life. But before he
can get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that reaches into the upper
echelons of Houston's corporate power brokers, Jay must confront the demons
of his past.
With pacing that captures the reader from the first scene through an
exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying
new talent.
