To do so, twenty-one-year-old Violet (who soon assumes the name Vera Henderson) skips out on the white man who wants to marry her, making off with his wallet-which, unbeknownst to her, contains evidence of a crime that somebody would stop at nothing to cover up.
Consequently, she must flee Jackson, and her sister, in the hopes that she can outrun her past. Simply being black is (still) a vulnerability, but Violet carries an even greater burden: she has killed a white man who brutalized her and went unpunished. Then, there’s the specter of the South, which remains deeply divided despite the abolition of Jim Crow laws in fact, three men were recently murdered in nearby Neshoba County for trying to help African Americans precure the ability to vote. Summer, 1964: Sisters Violet and Marigold Richards live together in Jackson, Mississippi, in a family home that’s haunted by memories of sadness and despair: the accidental death of their older sister, Rose, eight years before and the subsequent passing of both grief-stricken parents. Now, Morris-who is a corporate attorney and a married mother of three-returns with the historical thriller Anywhere You Run, which captures the treachery and turmoil of the American South. It’s also under option as a limited series at Showtime. That book won both the 2022 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel, the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for several other accolades. Morris emerged as a powerhouse suspense novelist with last year’s All Her Little Secrets.
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