Book: Mississippi Trial, 1955

Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe, 2002

Hiram is a 16 year old boy who is constantly at odds with his father, who is in turn at odds with his own father, Hiram's grandfather. Hiram, who spent several years growing up with his grandparents in Mississippi, returns to spend part of the summer holidays. Without knowing it, he is returning to a world that is at the same time different and the same to how he remembers. And a world which is about to be embroiled in a horrific crime.

There's a really steamy feel to the book - which might be because where I live we're experiencing high humidity. But the warm, slightly damp feel that the writing provokes carries the book along - like under tha slow, never-changing pace of the town there is a real sense of menace.

This book connects beautifully to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, along with other books I mentioned there.

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