'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 TIMES
Author
About Attica Locke
Attica Locke's first novel, Black Water Rising, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Attica is also a screenwriter who has written for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was 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, with her husband and daughter.
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