A Legacy of Vengeance - Hardcover

Armistead, John

3.81

16 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786700599 ISBN 13: 9780786700592

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

When the quietness of the Mississippi hill country is spoiled by the murder of four men, Sheriff Grover Bramlett weeds through the racial struggles of the region's past in order to solve the murders and avoid becoming the next victim.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Publisher:

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.

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 title" may belong to another edition of this title.