![]() ![]() ![]() His job already jeopardized by his role in a race-related murder case in another part of the state, Darren eases his way into Lark, where even his presence is enough to raise hackles among both the town’s white and black residents some of the latter, especially, seem reluctant and evasive in their conversations with him. Both battered bodies were found in a nearby bayou. ![]() One of the victims is a black lawyer from Chicago, the kind of crusader-advocate Darren could have been if he’d stayed on his original path the other is a young white woman, a local resident. “It was never intended for you.” Darren often wonders if she’s right but nonetheless finds his badge useful “for working homicides with a racial element-murders with a particularly ugly taint.” The East Texas town of Lark is small enough to drive through “in the time it to sneeze,” but it’s big enough to have had not one, but two such murders. “What is it about that damn badge?” his estranged wife, Lisa, asks. Instead, he followed his uncle’s lead to become a Texas Ranger. With a degree from Princeton and two years of law school under his belt, Darren Mathews could have easily taken his place among the elite of African-American attorneys. What appears at first to be a double hate crime in a tiny Texas town turns out to be much more complicated-and more painful-than it seems. ![]()
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