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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body--and the bodies of twelve other African...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Best is done running. She's heading to her hometown of Chateau, to the grand Quail House, to stay with her mother and claim the great American privilege of starting over. But she might find it is hard to start over when the past is catching up . . . The night Nora arrives in Chateau, a white police officer shoots and kills Robert Evans, a young black man. The officer in question is Nora's school sweetheart, Alden Tydings. What really happened...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South, [this book] stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black [man]who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
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