
The Highway 59 Series - Book 1
Bluebird, Bluebird: Booktrack Edition
“J. D. Jackson delivers a narration full of soul and heartache…Jackson’s sensitivity to Mathews’ conflicting emotions offers listeners a painfully intimate glimpse of the lawman’s psyche as the story of two racially charged murders in a small East Texas town unfolds. As the question of justice grows amid the criminal investigation, Jackson serves up plenty of drama. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Finalist for the Anthony Award
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Washington Post Best Books of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
A Crime Reads Pick of Books Involving Racial Injustice
A BookRiot Pick of Must-Listen Audiobooks
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A Southern Living Magazine Pick of the Year's Best Books
A London Guardian Best Book of the Year
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Runner-up for Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2017
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman--have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes--and save himself in the process--before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
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