A mystery that expands the whole idea of the mystery, reaching from the present deeply into the past. Each is willing to use the murder mystery as a framework for much more ambitious, atmospheric fiction.” (New York Times) “The impressively astute Attica Locke writes. The Cutting Season does more than exhume a body―it rattles the bones of slavery, race, class, and power to examine a crime that reverberates from more than a century ago.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) “One of the most engaging and gifted new voices in the genre. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Black Water Rising was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of WenchĪfter her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first-a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries, one on Belle Vie, a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana’s Sugar Cane country, and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier. “ The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think.
From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire:
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