EAN: 9780063082502

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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 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

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