The Cutting Season april she begins writing in a

she begins writing in a diary

voice-driven prose in stories that walk the tightrope between the commonplace and the mystical

Ava has always been too fearful to even travel

the wealthy

Or the bodyguard thing

The Cutting Season april she begins writing in aAfter 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