So when a cache of whisky labeled Bailey Brothers’ Best is unearthed during a local home renovation, Cassie hopes to find the answers she’s been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers…Ĭorporal Jeremiah Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. Genevieve Graham writes an ambitious and danger-filled novel of love, sacrifice and family that I couldn’t put down.Ĭassie Simmons, a museum curator, is enthusiastic about solving mysteries from the past, and she has a personal interest in the history of the rumrunners who ferried illegal booze across the Detroit River during Prohibition. “Jerry,” she whispered, disbelief sparkling in her blue eyes.

He’d dreamed so many times of seeing her again, but never like this. He knew what she saw: his face smeared with blood, his eyes bloodshot from exertion, his shirtfront drenched. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.Hugging his ribs against the pain, he turned toward Adele, taking in her pale beauty with anguish. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders - a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman - have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment.

Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. 'In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it.' -Ann Patchett Masks are strongly encouraged.Ī heartbreakingly resonant thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today). Registration is not required for this meeting.

This is a free event which will take place in store on Monday, April 10th at 10:00 AM Central Time. Join moderator Kathy Schultenover for a discussion of Attica Locke's book Bluebird, Bluebird.

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