I am a huge fan of Attica Locke's storytelling. She writes a great page-turner and throws in a lot of the painful racist history of Texas and the U.S.

I happened to find this excellent article on The Guardian that is part of a lecture she gave at the 2020 Noirwich Crime Writing Festival:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/12/murders-in-my-novels-true-crimes-about-land-attica-locke

There are possible spoilers there. Not of the crime you think her books are about, but of the bigger picture in her story. I value that quality in her writing. It just goes to show that you can get some great escapist lit - a page-turning mystery - that also packs another punch about some political and cultural issues that don't let the old brain cells escape too far

Now I just have to get my hands on her book, The Cutting Room--the only one I have yet to read--and then I will be desperate for Attica Locke to write a new book. :)