‘This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtful as it is fast-moving. Attica Locke has bags of style, and sings the blues on every page’ – Mick Herron (Slow Horses)

We’re thrilled to welcome American crime writer Attica Locke to Manchester Literature Festival for a rare UK event. In Guide Me Home, the latest of her gripping, politically charged crime novels, Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is in trouble: he might be about to stand trial in front of a Grand Jury; his difficult and destructive mother is back in his life, and a young Black woman from an all-white sorority appears to be missing, although her sorority sisters and her family deny she has disappeared. With his job, relationship and possibly his life on the line, Darren is forced to grapple with the realities of living in Trump’s America.

Attica Locke is an author, screenwriter and producer who was born in Houston, Texas. She is the author of six novels including Heaven, My Home, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month; Bluebird, Bluebird, winner of the CWA Steel Dagger; Pleasantville, longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Black Water Rising, shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her screenwriting/producer credits include When They See Us, Empire, and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing.

Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester.

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