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During a wet Edmonds winter, it’s tempting to find a comfy chair, light the fire, pull a blanket up to your chin and immerse yourself in a literary and plot-driven thriller or two to keep the blood moving while the cold wind and rain carries on outside.

Two East Texas thrillers to keep you warm

“Bluebird, Bluebird,” Attica Locke, Mulholland Books, $26

State Highway 59 runs north from Houston, up through Lufkin and Nacogdoches, to Timpson, and somewhere along the way, among the piney woods of east Texas, is Locke’s fictional small town of Lark, the setting for this powerf...