The Long Shadow

Black female deputy Bernadette Leblanc uncovers corruption in her rural Louisiana hometown when her lover Leslie—a public-interest lawyer—mysteriously turns up dead. As a railroad conglomerate maneuvers to buy up land, driving out the poor, Leblanc plunges down a rabbit hole of lies and deception where she’ll have to choose between toeing the line and exposing her town’s wealthiest and most powerful family.