Anywhere You Run

Zusatztext “Attorney Morris puts her experiences as a Black woman navigating the corridors of corporate power to good use in her strong debut... John Grisham fans will be pleased.” Informationen zum Autor Wanda M. Morris is the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets , which has been praised by Karin Slaughter as “brilliantly nuanced” and reviewed by The Boston Globe , LA Times , New York Times , Atlanta Journal-Constitution , Seattle Times , and South Florida Sun Sentinel among others. Her second novel, Anywhere You Run , won the Anthony award for Best Historical Novel of 2023 and was longlisted for the prestigious Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Prize. She is married, the mother of three, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Klappentext "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 . . . 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. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. Suffering a brutal attack of her own, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run. With the help of her white beau, Violet escapes. 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. Back in Jackson, Marigold, Violet's older sister, has dreams of attending law school. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. After news of the murder brings the police to her door, Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But has she made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? Two sisters on the run?one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him . . . ?Anywhere You Run had me hooked from the first page... It's a novel both tender and ferocious?an absolute stunner.? ?Lou Berney, Edgar Award?winning author of November Road Zusammenfassung As Seen on The TODAY Show! 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 * CrimeReads 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 . . . 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. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Violet Richards finds herself in more troubl...

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"Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris is the rare heart-pounding thriller that's also deeply moving." - Real Simple
"As the sisters try to outrun their pasts, the fast-paced narrative makes for heart-in-your-throat reading; the reasons they must flee feel, unfortunately, all too current." - Washington Post
"The world of the Jim Crow South comes to life with chilling clarity in Morris' well-researched novel.... Eventually, Violet, Marigold and Mercer's paths converge as Anywhere You Run reaches its heartbreaking and unexpected climax." - Bookreporter.com
"Two novels into her career, Wanda M. Morris has established herself among the biggest risk-takers in the crime genre." - New York Times
"The sisters' resiliency and loyalty to one another makes this suspenseful piece of historical fiction worthwhile." - Buzzfeed
"From page one, you are completely gripped, you are in these two protagonists' head. Wonderful read, I read it in one reading." - Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on The TODAY Show
"Morris follows the highly acclaimed All Her Little Secrets (2021) with a stunning novel about two Black sisters on the run, one victimized by an egregious crime and both guilty of simply wanting better lives for themselves...These parallel stories of hiding and pursuit, which lead to an amazing conclusion, are told in the different but equally compelling voices of Violet and Marigold, each filled with its own fear and pain. This riveting and moving novel, with echoes of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, is highly recommended for fans of suspense and women's fiction."
- Booklist (starred review)
"From the acclaimed author of All Her Little Secrets comes a novel packed with intrigue and suspense." - Oprah Daily
"A stunning thriller and a stunning work of historical fiction. Anywhere You Run is riveting, touching and terrifying. Wanda M. Morris is a ferociously talented writer." - Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of The Long Weekend
"The suspense will set your heart thumping, the story will break it. A compelling thriller with powerful historical detail." - J.D. Barker, New York Times bestselling author of A Caller's Game
"Powerful and poignant..." - BookBub
"Heart-pounding..." - Popsugar
"A propulsive and immersive journey among the treacherous landscape of America in the early 1960s told through the eyes of black women. With unflinching prose, Wanda M. Morris weaves a story of love, loss, and unimaginable strength." - Catherine Adel West, author of The Two Lives of Sara and Saving Ruby King
"Evocative, heartbreaking, and utterly life-changing. With the ground-breaking Anywhere You Run, Wanda Morris blooms into literary fiction, bringing readers a chillingly knowing and brilliantly upsetting novel of the 60s. With no holds barred and no emotion unplumbed, the talented Morris writes a tale of two sisters that's unflinchingly raw and passionately authentic. We cannot turn away from the story, or from the immersive settings, or from Morris's skilled depiction of tragedy, triumph, and the struggle to love and survive." - Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author
"So powerful! Though she's writing about the past, Wanda Morris tells a story that feels incredibly relevant today. With its menacing characters and emotionally wrenching situations, Anywhere You Run made me hold my breath for two wonderfully well-drawn heroines." - Rachel Howzell Hall, bestselling author of These Toxic Things

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Wanda M Morris, Wanda M. Morris
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.10.2022
• EAN: 9780063082502
• ISBN: 978-0-06-308250-2
• Seiten: 400
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Spannung; Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage; Historical fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Horror and supernatural fiction, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, FICTION: African American & Black / Mystery & Detective, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Thrillers / Domestic, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, Relating to African American / Black American people, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Women's Literature