In 1970, Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year,the twenty-three-year-old found himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries.While the rest of America was in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lived on the edge of another age, until the brutal murder of a young mother rocked the town--and thrust Willie into the,center of a storm.

Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie made as many friends as enemies in Clanton--and over the next decade he would sometimes wonder how he had gotten there in the first place. But he could never escape the crime that shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil left an indelible stain. Because as the ghosts of the South"s past gather around Willie, as tension swirls around Clanton, men and women who served on a jury nine years ago are starting to die one by one--as a killer exacts the ultimate revenge...

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

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