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Attica Locke - Black Water Rising, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Black Water Rising

Av Attica Locke

Del 1 i serien Jay Porter mysteries by Attica Locke

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Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book PrizeOn a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box.Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to make a fresh start. His impulsive act out on the bayou is heroic, but it puts Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him is practice, his family and even his life. Before he can untangle the mystery that stretches to the highest reaches of corporate power, he must confront the demons of his past.A provocative thriller with an exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-04-15
  • Mått: 129 x 197 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 360 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Jay Porter mysteries by Attica Locke
  • Antal sidor: 448
  • Förlag: Profile Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781846687532
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Orange Prize - Women's Prize for Fiction 2010 (UK)
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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.

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