Can you follow the clues to figure out the subject of our next book discussion group? If you read the headline, you’ve already got all the clues you need…
Our Mystery Book Discussion Group will launch in October 2026 with a discussion of Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. Bluebird, Bluebird is the first book in the Highway 59 Trilogy and it won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2018.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
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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Copies of Bluebird, Bluebird can be picked up from the Book Discussion Shelf on our first floor.
An in-person discussion of Bluebird, Bluebird will be held at the library on Tuesday, October 20, at 6:00 PM. No registration is required, so please join us if you’d like to be part of the discussion.
Published on September 23, 2026.
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