Guide Me Home

"In this affecting final installment of Attica Locke’s award-winning Highway 59 series, which began with Bluebird, Bluebird, a Black college student goes missing from the all-white Texas sorority she was pledging. Burned-out and semiretired Texas Ranger Darren Mathews investigates as a favor and soon finds himself facing a wall of silence, as the missing student’s family lives in a shadowy, for-profit company town whose inhabitants have long given up on government. That intrigue seamlessly intertwines with the cultural ripples of Trumpism – from its appeal among some men of color to the deference for corporations and the wealthy. While #MeToo-themed mysteries are relatively thick on the ground, politically minded racial reckonings are not. This one is particularly worth spending time with."