Black Water Rising (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780061735851 - UTGIVEN: 201004Jay Porter has long since made peace with not living the American Dream. He runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy Houston strip mall--where his most promising client is a low-rent call girl--and he's determined to leave the sins of his past buried: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nea[...]
The Cutting Season (Inbunden)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9780061802058 - UTGIVEN: 201209In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two m[...]
The Cutting Season (Häftad)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9780061802065 - UTGIVEN: 2013-09Caren Gray manages Louisiana's stately Belle Vie, an antebellum plantation-turned-tourist attraction where the past and the present coexist uneasily. Outside the gates, an ambitious corporation snaps up sugarcane fields from struggling families, replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensi[...]
Pleasantville (Inbunden)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9780062259400 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04Jay Porter, the hero of the critically acclaimed bestseller Black Water Rising, becomes embroiled in a toxic case involving politics, corruption, and murder in this electrifying and atmospheric tale from Attica Locke, a writer "akin to George Pelecanos or Dennis Lehane" (New York Times).Fifteen year[...]
Black Water Rising (Häftad)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9781846687532 - UTGIVEN: 201004On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box. Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to make[...]
Cutting Season (Häftad)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9781846688041 - UTGIVEN: 201307Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible. At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean. So [...]
The Cutting Season (Inbunden)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9781846689123 - UTGIVEN: 201209The American South in the twenty-first century. A plantation owned for generations by a rich family. So much history. And a dead body. Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for four years. Today she sees nothing unusual[...]
Pleasantville (Inbunden)
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9781846689482 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville - the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. Axel Hat[...]
Svarta vatten
avAttica Locke
ISBN: 9789173435444 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09En sen kväll i Houston 1981. Jay Porter hör ett skrik i mörkret. När han räddar en kvinna från att drunkna i floden öppnar han oavsiktligt Pandoras ask.I sin ungdom var han politisk aktivist, nu är han advokat och väntar sitt första barn. Jays hjältemodiga handling visar sig få omvälvan[...]
