Set in modern day America it confronts racial discrimination and prejudice head on, with elements of white supremacy thrown into the mix. In that sense it would have been more thought-provoking and challenging if it had come out 18 months ago. A conventional thriller it definitely is not.ĭesigned to shock, this book achieves its aim although some of its impact has been mitigated as a result of revelations pertaining to the current political and racial climate in the US. On the surface this is a crime novel but in reality it is so much more. However, after this unhurried start, it rapidly escalates into an exciting book with a complex plot and numerous twists and turns. It is also a little slow at the start, largely because it is painstakingly setting the scene for what is about to happen, rather than jumping straight into the storyline. Initially I did not find the book easy to read, largely I think because the language (and also to some extent the sentence construction) used by blacks from the South is not particularly familiar to me. One is a black lawyer from out of town, the other a local white woman. Darren Mathews is a black Texas Ranger who becomes involved in a case in the small town of Lark in which two people have recently been murdered.
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