Last updated: 20 november, 2009 - 15:15 GMT
Attica Locke
Attica Locke
The African American author Attica Locke is hailed as a "standout" writer by James Ellroy and compared to The Wire writer George Pelecanos and Mystic River author Dennis Lehane.
On The Strand she discusses her debut crime thriller Black Water Rising, a story of corruption, oil wealth and race relations in 1980s Texas.
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