A black Texas Ranger dealing with a pile of personal issues is called on to solve two murders in rural eastern Texas - a black lawyer passing through town and a local white woman. Racial tensions are high in this tiny backwater town; can the Ranger set aside his own issues and do his job? Bluebird, Bluebird (#1 Hwy59), Attica Locke Award: Edgar Genre: Mystery Published 2017, 303 pages The mystery is solid: two seemingly unrelated murders - a black man passing through town an

The Last Child (#1 Merrimon), John Hart Genre: General Fiction, Mystery Award: Edgar Published 2009, 373 pages He watched the grief take her down. It broke her at the waist. She splayed her hands on the ground, dug her fingers into soft earth. “Make it stop,” she whispered. Boy, this book just rips at your heart. Johnny’s family is torn apart after his twin sister goes missing. Then, a while later, his father leaves. Both Johnny and his mother are devastated by these two loss

Eleven people board a private jet flying from Martha’s Vineyard to New York. When the plane crashes into the ocean only two survive. Before The Fall, Noah Hawley Genre: General Fiction Award: Edgar Award Winner Published 2016, 401 pages On a private jet flying to New York, Scott, a down-on-his-luck painter and JJ, the 4-year-old son of a billionaire survive a plane crash. Scott rescues the crying JJ from the water carrying him on his back as he swims for hours to land. Haile