Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. 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. 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. but can they escape the secrets they left behind? It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. "Wise, riveting, and full of surprises, Anywhere You Run will keep you up past your bedtime and stay with you long after the book is closed." -Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six From 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. Someone's lying about what happened in the woodshed. The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can't explain. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain-questions about college, love, and life in general. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson. Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England.
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