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Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Yearby New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReads

From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet…

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2 authors picked Anywhere You Run as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

What I love about historical novels is their ability to transport me into a past that was beyond my imaginings before I read the book.

The harrowing opening scene of this novel is something I could not imagine. But the main character of the novel, a black woman living in the Jim Crow South, has no such luxury. She knows full well the perils of being a black woman in the South. She must fight against deadly sexism and racism to try to claim a life for herself and solve a mystery with ties to a true historical crime.

Wanda…

A bookseller pressed this into my hands when I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I read it on the plane and almost wished the flight were longer so I could finish before being jolted back to the present day. 

1964, Jackson, Mississippi – sisters Violet and Marigold are desperate to leave their hometown after the deaths of their parents and older sister. They take different paths, never imagining that they have a dangerous connection to the brutal murder of three men—one Black, two white—as part of the resistance to the Summer of the Vote. Nor do they imagine…

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