A very enjoyable book about a young black female civil rights lawyer in 1946. Regina Mary Robichard is inspired to travel to Mississippi to help in solving the murder case of a young black soldier when the author of her favorite book writes to her office for help. When Regina gets to Revere, she finds out that the case is going to be a lot more difficult than she believed. She is deep in Jim Crow laws, lynching is very common and the white men and women who take part in the racist acts are not imprisoned or charged for their crimes.

This book gave a real sense of the deep southern town Regina visited - from the customs, to those laws you just didn't break and the secrets you didn't talk about. All through the book, I felt a deep fear imprinted in the words that followed Regina around and it made me so afraid for her. I wasn't sure if something would happen because of her investigations.


This book would be great for anyone that's a fan of The Help or even anyone who grew up reading Mildred D Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. I would have liked the ending to be slightly more fleshed out, it fell rather flat for me and left me asking more questions than I would have liked and a slight sense of disappointment in basic human nature. But overall, a very good read!