"Dripping with southern Gothic atmosphere. An auspicious debut from Attica Locke."-George Pelecanos, author of The Turnaround ""Black Water Rising" is a stylish, involving literary thriller with a strong emphasis on human politics and character. Locke uses small, incremental deceptions to draw her main character into big and dangerous mistakes. Great writing, the kind that gives you goose bumps."-Los Angeles Times A mystery that expands the whole idea of the mystery, reaching from the present deeply into the past. Each is willing to use the murder mystery as a framework for much more ambitious, atmospheric fiction."-New York Times "The impressively astute Attica Locke writes. I'd probably read the phone book if her name was on the spine."-Dennis Lehane She writes with equal amounts grace and passion. "I was first struck by Attica Locke's prose, then by the ingenuity of her narrative and finally and most deeply by the depth of her humanity. Attica Locke a writer wise beyond her years."-Los Angeles Times her in the company of master thriller writers such as Dennis Lehane or Scott Turow. "Locke deftly moves between past and present action. "Attica Locke's first novel, Black Water Rising, which Janet Maslin called 'subtle and compelling' in The New York Times, is an even better book than its author had in mind.The book cleverly replaces the kind of cold-war paranoia that used to animate thrillers with racial paranoia instead."-New York Times
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