Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (2017) Mulholland Books

An Edgar winner, yet hard to get through.  Not because the writing is obscure, or the craft is poor.  It’s mostly that the writer does not get me to care about the protagonist.  He’s a Texas Ranger, he’s black, and his status is questionable.  His wife has kicked him out, he’s being looked-at by his boss and the Rangers because of how close he was to his uncle, who has killed a man on his property.  In the meantime, at a small town, if you can even call it that, there is a place that isn’t quite a juke joint, where multiple murders of its patrons have happened.  Who kills whom is a longer story?