''Bluebird, Bluebird'' is a 2017 novel by Attica Locke. Its main character is an African-American Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews, from the eastern part of the state. He investigates the death of another African-American, a Chicago lawyer named Michael Wright, in the town of Lark. The novel has the subtitle "A Highway 59 Novel" as the story takes place around that route; Locke herself had family members living in communities along that road. Neely Tucker of ''

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'' wrote that the setting "feels stuck in a sepia-toned time warp." Esi Edugyan of ''

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'' wrote that the work is "a narrative of exhilarating immediacy" which has "hallmarks of modern crime fiction" with some of its own character. In 2018, the novel won the

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for Best Novel.

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