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Highway 59 Série

Tato série se ponoří do temných zákoutí texaského venkova, kde právo a pořádek často ustupují osobním zájmům a rasovým napětím. Sleduje osudy černého texaského rangera, který se musí vyrovnávat s vlastní minulostí a zároveň řešit složité případy v odlehlých komunitách. Příběhy zkoumají hluboce zakořeněné předsudky, morální dilemata a hledání spravedlnosti v prostředí, kde je hranice mezi dobrem a zlem často nejasná.

Heaven, My Home
Bluebird, Bluebird

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    Bluebird, Bluebird

    • 320 stránek
    • 12 hodin čtení
    3,8(291)Ohodnotit

    When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply conflicted about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him back.So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders - a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman - have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt.'In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. I loved everything about this book.' Ann Patchett'Locke's writing is both sharp-edged and lyrical. This is thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport.' Diana Evans, Financial Times

    Bluebird, Bluebird
  2. 2

    Heaven, My Home

    • 304 stránek
    • 11 hodin čtení
    3,9(6451)Ohodnotit

    "9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage. An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her grandson. Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices, as well as threats that have been reignited in the current political climate, as he races to find the boy, and to save himself."--Provided by publisher.

    Heaven, My Home