Heaven, My Home

A propulsive and compelling novel, worthy of comparisons to Walter Mosley ... Locke's exploration of Matthews's predicament digs deep into the tension between "the impulse to police crimes against black life and to protect black life from police". It is buttressed by passages of gorgeous lyricism, with loving, elegiac evocations of Texas * Guardian * Attica Locke's magnificent new novel, Heaven, My Home, is set on the side of a lake where this small community struggles to survive, encroached on by angry white men who deal in drugs and stolen goods ... shines an unflinching light on an ugly side of contemporary America * Sunday Times * 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 * Sunday Express * 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 * Financial Times * One of America's finest crime novelists ... a beautifully wrought mystery and an incisive portrait of the American South in the age of Trump * Daily Mail * A tightly plotted crime novel centring on the disappearance of a child, and a blistering look at race in Donald Trump's America * iPaper * A superb thriller * The Times * A powerful, angry, important book. Attica Locke is a major talent -- Mick Herron, author of SLOW HORSES Highly charged and fantastically drawn -- Abir Mukherjee, author of A RISING MAN 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 -- The Judges of the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Incredible -- Reese Witherspoon

Attica Locke is the author of Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Book of the Month, Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.