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One Night in Mississippi

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After fifty years of guilt over his brother's brutal murder in Civil Rights–era Mississippi, Warren Williams decides to renew his fight to bring the men responsible to justice. His efforts put him face-to-face with one of the murderers, Earl Olsen, in a remote Ontario town, where a contest of wits will end in death.
One Night in Mississippi is the story of a young activist named Graden Williams, who was brutally murdered in Mississippi during the sixties. After the perpetrators were charged but quickly released, Graden's brother, Warren, drifted aimlessly for decades, estranged from the rest of his family and struggling with guilt over his brother's death. But when the U.S. Justice Department begins re-opening cases like Graden's more than forty years later, he dedicates himself to bringing Graden's killers to justice.
A phoned-in tip after a television appearance leads Warren to a remote town in northern Ontario, where he meets Earl Olsen, the only murderer still at large, who turns out to be very different than what Warren had expected.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 20, 2014
      Former newspaper columnist McBride (Dandelions Help) has written a debut that is a compelling exploration of a family’s grief after the 11-year-old daughter is brutally sexually assaulted and then murdered. In an author’s note, McBride explains that the book was inspired by a crime that touched her own family in 1986 when the friend of one of her young daughters was similarly attacked and slain. The novel follows the Warne family, who live a life of privilege and relative innocence in the mid ’80s in an undisclosed North American city. Their lives are shattered the day the oldest daughter, Lizbett, fails to come home from a trip to the local library. Told from various points of view—including Lizbett’s mother and father, her sister, other characters connected to the family, and, disturbingly, the murderer, Melvyn Searle, who goes on to murder another girl—it is graphic, heart- and gut-wrenching reading, yet also about love and grief, motivation and healing, and the endurance of family and the human spirit.

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