![]() ![]() I’d probably read the phone book if her name was on the spine.” - Dennis Lehane She writes with equal amounts grace and passion. “I was first struck by Attica Locke’s prose, then by the ingenuity of her narrative and finally and most deeply by the depth of her humanity. Equal parts murder mystery and family drama, the novel also draws readers in through its considerations of African-American history and life in post-Katrina Louisiana.” - USA Today “Dripping with southern Gothic atmosphere. “A thoughtful, well-written and absorbing read with a surprising ending.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune ![]() ![]() “Although The Cutting Season succeeds as a thriller, above all it is a well-crafted warning about the damage wrought-generational, social, romantic-when the past is distorted or denied.” - Financial Times Great writing, the kind that gives you goose bumps.” - Los Angeles Times 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. ![]()
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