(Mark Lawson Guardian)Īn excellent thriller on one level, Locke's novel offers a beautifully detailed character in "Jay Edgar Porter", a bereaved father struggling to cope with his loss. That could be her best story yet - which, on the evidence of those she has already written, is saying something. A future book will surely deal with race in the Obama and post-Obama era. In her first three novels, Locke has explored cultural history since the days of slavery. This is a cinematic, panoramic view of African-American life, but it is also a sharp, tender account of Jay Porter's inner struggle. subtle, complex questions of identity, family and history ( Daily Mail) a smart legal thriller about how far people will go to gain power, and keep it. It's a fascinatingly complex setting and Locke maps it with great skill, charting the struggles of her characters as the crime remains unsolved.
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