Hardcover, 978-0-3163-6329-4, (also available as an e-book and on Audible), 320 pgs., $26.00<\/p>\n

The tiny town of Lark, deep into East Texas on Highway 59,<\/span> has had two murders in the last week. That\u2019s two more than the last six years. The first body is that of a black man from Chicago, a stranger in town. The second is a white woman, a local, whose body turns up in the bayou behind Geneva Sweet\u2019s Sweets. Geneva Sweet has spent her entire sixty-nine years in Lark, the last several decades running her small diner. Geneva keeps her secrets and minds her own business, but other people are terrified of those secrets and minding her business, too.<\/p>\n

Darren Matthews is descended from a line of lawyers and lawmen, most recently working a task force focused on the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, and one of the few black Texas Rangers. He\u2019s got wife troubles, career troubles, bourbon troubles, and legal troubles; now he\u2019s got Lark troubles. Assigned to investigate the murders in Lark, Darren finds himself stymied by his superiors who maybe don\u2019t want to know what happened in those East Texas woods. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

Forge Books<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-0-7653-9018-9 (also available as an e-book, on Audible, and on audio CD), 304 pgs., $25.99; May 9, 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I, being poor, have only my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSaint\u201d Bonnelyn Parker grew up poor and ambitious in Cement City,<\/span> a company town in West Dallas created for the employees of the area\u2019s cement plants, in the early twentieth century. In 1927, Bonnelyn is seventeen years old, attending high school, singing in the church choir, escaping into books at the local library, and dreaming of becoming a teacher. When her widowed mother becomes ill, her brother is hurt on the job, and Bonnelyn is laid off from her waitressing job, she follows her best friend, Blanche, to a bartending job in an illegal speakeasy (its walls papered with pro-Prohibition posters) in the basement of a physician\u2019s office in what is now the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, so she can keep the electricity on.<\/p>\n

Becoming Bonnie<\/span> is the debut novel by Jenni L. Walsh.<\/span> Historical fiction set in Dallas during the latter years of Prohibition, Becoming Bonnie<\/span> is the story of how prim and proper Bonnelyn Parker became half of the infamous, bootlegging and bank-robbing couple Bonnie and Clyde.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"