Home is a lot of things for Attica Locke. Home, for the author of the new novel “Guide Me Home” — the final installment in a critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels — is Los Angeles, where she lives, and where she wrote and produced for series including “Empire” and “Little Fires Everywhere.” Home is also East Texas, where she was born and raised, and where her Highway 59 series of novels takes place.
The trilogy, which started in 2017 with the award-winning “Bluebird, Bluebird,” and continued two years after that with “Heaven, My Home,” follows Darren Mathews, a Black Texas Ranger with a complicated life. “Guide Me Home” finds Mathews investigating the disappearance of a college student while navigating America under President Donald Trump. SEE ALSO : Bestsellers, authors, books and more can be found in the Books section “The whole thing is about home for me because it’s about my East Texas roots,” Locke says of her latest novel.
“It’s a literal home in that I was born and raised in Houston, but I also mean home in the sense of home, my best self; home, where my integrity lies; home, where my fortitude lies; home, where my courage lies.” There’s a reason, Locke says, that the word “home” appears in two of the novels’ titles. “Home for me represents all of these things,” she explains.
“It is a literal place in the world, and it’s a figurative container for my value system, the East Texas values I was raised with. Bu.