* THE BLISTERING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE AWARD-WINNING HIGHWAY 59 SERIES *** WINNER OF THE CRIME FICTION LOVER BOOK OF THE YEAR EDITOR''S CHOICE **** 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. A choice made three years before, which served justice if not the law, means that he may now stand trial. And his mother - an intermittent and destructive force in his life - is the cause of his fall from grace.And yet it is his mother''s reappearance that may also be his salvation. A black girl at an all-white sorority at a nearby college is missing, her belongings tossed in a dumpster. Her sorority sisters, the college police, even the girl''
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