It’s a novel both tender and ferocious-an absolute stunner.” -Lou Berney, Edgar Award–winning author of November Road

“ Anywhere You Run had me hooked from the first page. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him. What they don’t realize is that there’s a man hot on their trail. Two sisters on the run-one from the law, the other from social shame. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. After news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she’s pregnant and unmarried. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But desperation and fear leads her to hide out in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia, unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks.īack in Jackson, Marigold, Violet’s older sister, has dreams of attending law school. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life. It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsįrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country.

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