Cutting Season

<P>From Attica Locke a writer and producer of FOX s Empire: <P> The Cutting Seasonis a rare murder mystery with heft a historical novel that thrills a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience. Dolen Perkins-Valdez New York Timesbestselling author ofWench<P>After her breathtaking debut novel Black Water Rising won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos Locke returns withThe Cutting Season a second novel easily as gripping and powerful as her first a heart-pounding thriller that interweaves two murder mysteries one on Belle Vie a historic landmark in the middle of Lousiana s Sugar Cane country and one involving a slave gone missing more than one hundred years earlier.Black Water Risingwas nominated for aLos Angeles Times Book Prize an Edgar(r) Award and an NAACP Image Award and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.