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 soon as he could. Until duty called him home. In the middle of a personal crisis that has put both his job and his marriage in jeopardy, Darren takes to Highway 59 on the trail of two seemingly related murders-- a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman-- that have stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment in the small town of Lark. Darren must solve their murders before the town's long-simmering racial tensions erupt. An exhilarating thriller suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is a powerful novel about the collision of race and justice in America--