All Her Little Secrets won the 2022 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel and 2022 Georgia Author of the Year for Best First Novel. and reviewed by The Boston Globe, LA Times, New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, and South Florida Sun Sentinel. Morris is the acclaimed author of All Her Little Secrets, which has been praised by Karin Slaughter as “brilliantly nuanced”. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Wanda M. 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. After a quick marriage, they move to Ohio seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But after the Project's lawyer-and her baby's father-abandons her and news of Huxley's murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to marry another man and leave Jackson behind. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, Marigold has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote.
But she is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. But desperation has her winding up in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia.
With the help of her white beau, Dewey Leonard, a lovesick boy intent on marrying her up North, they make it to Birmingham before she sneaks away and catches a Greyhound bus bound for Washington, D.C. Before anyone can find Huxley's body or finger Violet 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, not in Jackson, Mississippi. It was an act of self-defense against her white rapist, Huxley Broadus. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? It's 1964 and Violet Richards is in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. From the acclaimed 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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