Bluebird, Bluebird

Gold Dagger Award · 2021 · ShortlistAnthony Award for Best Novel · 2018 · WinnerEdgar Award (Best Novel) · 2018 · Winner

Mulholland BooksSeptember 26, 2017mystery-crimeISBN 9780316363419

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Gold Dagger Award	2021	Shortlist
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2018	Winner	“Attica Locke's Texas Ranger novel won for its searing portrait of racial injustice, its beautifully realized East Texas setting, and its uncompromising examination of what justice means for Black Americans.”
Edgar Award (Best Novel)	2018	Winner

About This Book

Texas Ranger Darren Mathews investigates two murders in a small East Texas town—a Black man and a white woman—navigating a racially divided community and his own complicated family history. Edgar Award winner for Best Novel.

About the Author

Attica LockeUS

Attica Locke is an American crime fiction author and television writer known for her Texas-set novels and her work on the television series Empire and Little Fires Everywhere. She won the Anthony Award for Best Novel for Bluebird, Bluebird (2018) and the CWA Gold Dagger shortlist for the same novel. Her fiction is known for its searing examination of race, justice, and the American South. Read more →