Cutting Season LP, The

From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s  Empire: “ The Cutting Season  is 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 Times  bestselling author of  Wench 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 with  The 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 Rising  was nominated for a  Los Angeles Times  Book Prize, an Edgar® Award, and an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the U.K.