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The Cutting Season
Attica Locke
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
By the prize-winning author of Heaven My Home, a taut crime novel perfect for reading groups.
Bury your bodies deep and your secrets deeper.
Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible. At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.
So there will be police, asking questions. The family who own Belle Vie will have to be told. There's a school group on the way to visit. Where is Donovan, the member of staff no one has seen? And all the time, Caren is thinking that there are only so many keys, only so many ways in to Belle Vie with its six foot high perimeter fence. And as she lives on site with her daughter, she wonders: how much danger are they in?
A thriller with as much heart as it has pace, Attica Locke combines a riveting mystery with a shattering story of how our history is never just the past.
Rezensionen
Attica Locke is a stand-out in every way
A subtle thriller with real historical heft
Genuinely unnerving ... interested in subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history
An intelligent and beguiling mystery that examines how our past haunts our present, told by a unique voice in contemporary crime fiction
Rich in atmosphere, strong in story, hinges on human complexity
Beautifully conveys the atmosphere of a sad past haunting a benighted present
Locke was shortlisted for the Orange prize for her debut <i>. </i>This is even better
Attica Locke writes with equal amounts grace and passion. After just two novels, I'
Attica Locke'
A good crime novel on its own, but Locke has woven through it an engrossing exploration of freedom in all its trickiest aspects ... an involving and moving novel
A well-crafted warning about the damage wrought - generational, social, romantic - when the past is distorted or denied
Far more than a crime novel, covers the fallout from divorce, regret, poverty and bitter family secrets
This is a highly engrossing and genuinely thought-provoking piece of crime fiction: one that reminds us of the genre'
Kundenbewertungen
cwa gold dagger, racism and slavery, orange prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, crime fiction, political drama, Edgar Award, NAACP Image Award, Women's Prize for Fiction, Black water rising, confederacy US history, little fires everywhere