Monday, September 18, 2017

Fools Rush In by Ed Gorman, 329 pages

It's 1963. All spring, Freedom Riders have been facing police dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, Alabama. While no one is marching in Black River Falls, Iowa, attorney Sam McCain's sleepy heartland town is showing signs of racial unease nonetheless. A black college student has turned up dead. Close by him in the woods outside of town lies a second victim: a white local photographer. All the evidence points to blackmail, and to a scandal that could ruin the reelection campaign of the very white Senator Lloyd Williams.....

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