Black Water Rising: A Novel

Black Water Rising: A Novel

<p>Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX’s <em>Empire</em>—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice</p><p><strong><em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)</strong><br/><strong>Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)</strong><br/><strong>The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)</strong></p><p>Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl, and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he’s long since made peace with his path to the American Dream, carefully tucking away his darkest sins: the guns, the FBI file, the trial that nearly destroyed him.</p><p>Houston, Texas, 1981. It’s here that Jay believes he can make a fresh start. That is, until the night he impulsively saves a drowning woman’s life – and opens a Pandora’s Box. Her secrets put Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him his practice, his family, and even his life. But before he can get to the bottom of a tangled mystery that reaches into the upper echelons of Houston’s corporate powerbrokers, Jay must confront the demons of his past.</p><p>“A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented plot.... Attica Locke [is] a writer wise beyond her years.”?— <em>Los Angeles Times</em></p><p>“Atmospheric… deeply nuanced... akin to George Pelecanos or Dennis Lehane....  Subtle and compelling.”?— <em>New York Times</em></p>