In Clanton, Mississippi, not much happens. There aren't many interesting stories for Willie Traynor's newspaper. But then there's a murder. When the killer goes to jail, the story does not end. Everybody is afraid now of this man and his family. Will there be more killings? Who will be next?
Read it with my 7th graders. It's an interesting book, but extremely fast paced which sometimes makes it hard to follow the story. My students struggled a bit with the amount of characters introduced in the first chapters.