Heaven, My Home

This is the third crime novel by Attica Locke that I have read, and I think it is the best of the three. The plot moves at a crisp pace, and along the way you will learn some interesting tidbits about the history of northeastern Texas, out in the wild bayou country around Caddo Lake, where much of the action takes place. Our hero, a Black Texas Ranger named Darren Mathews, shares with many cops in this genre a strong moral compass, plenty of smarts, and a troubled past that becomes entangled with his case. That the story takes place shortly after Trump's election in 2016 and features a cast of genuine and wannabe white supremacists as well as the white grifters who seek to exploit them and their Black and Native American neighbors... well, that just gives the whole affair a certain piquance that is only spicier since January 6.