A Legacy of Vengeance (Sheriff Bramlett Mystery) - Softcover

Armistead, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440223849 ISBN 13: 9780440223849

Publisher: Dell, 1997

Synopsis

In an explosion of madness, the years of peace between the black and white communities of the Mississippi hill country are shattered. Four men--a preacher, a lawyer, an auto mechanic, and an insurance salesman--have been killed by someone who drives a 1960s white Pontiac. In his search for the killer, Sheriff Bramlett is hurled back to the tumultuous era of night-riders, church burnings, and Klansmen.

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From Kirkus Reviews:

``Who would want to kill old Klansmen?'' wonders Sheriff Grover Bramlett, of Chakchiuma County, after somebody has shotgunned three locals--a preacher/house painter, a womanizing lawyer, and an inoffensive mechanic--and, just for variety, killed a fourth, an insurance salesman who had begged for police protection, with an automatic. The only clues: the presence of a spectral white 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix; repeated threatening references to ``Leavenworth''; and the knowledge that all four victims were members of the KKK a generation ago. The 1967 murder of Jess Ritter, a Grand Cyclops convicted of civil rights violations (e.g., killing black people) and killed himself in prison by an angry crowd of black inmates, offers a possible common thread linking the victims; but in that case, why has the killer gone on to execute small-time black crook Modell Emerson, who did time in Leavenworth alongside Ritter? Before Bramlett can answer this question, he'll find himself, for all his righteous anti-Klan indignation, on the killer's list as well. Despite some effectively intense extended-family Mississippi atmosphere, the individual characters are colorless, and complications arrive far too late to breathe life into this earnest debut. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0440223849
• ISBN 13: 9780440223849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304