Books


The Return of Gabriel
Author: John Armistead
Published: May 10, 2002 by Milkweed Editions
Category: Young adult
Main Character: Cooper Grant, Jubal Harris
Two thirteen-year-old boys, one white and the other black, find their world turned upside down in the summer of 1964 when civil rights workers come to their Mississippi town and the Ku Klux Klan reacts.
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The $66 Summer
Author: John Armistead
Published: May 10, 2000 by Milkweed Editions
Category: Young adult
Main Character: George Harrison, Bennet and Esther Garrison
Three teenage friends, one white and two black, confront the violence of racism in Alabama in the summer of 1955.
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Cruel as the Grave
Author: John Armistead
Published: July 10, 1996 by Carroll & Graf
Series Name: Sheriff Grover Bramlett mysteries
Category: Police Procedural
Main Character: Sheriff Grover Bramlett
The killing of Naresse Clouse, mother of four, was the stuff of nightmares. The pretty restaurant hostess was shot, stabbed, and left hanging in a rural barn, where some said she was meeting a lover. Three years later her killer has not been found, but no one in Sheffield, Mississippi, has forgotten her, including Sheriff Grover Bramlett.
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A Homecoming for Murder
Author: John Armistead
Published: July 10, 1995 by Carroll & Graf
Series Name: Sheriff Grover Bramlett mysteries
Category: Police Procedural
Main Character: Sheriff Grover Bramlett
In the town of Sheffield, Mississippi, football is next to godliness, and homecoming is the shrine. But this year, as the homecoming queens - one white, one black - are crowned and families take their usual places in the stands, shocking news is broadcast over the stadum loudspeakers: a popular high school teacher has been found murdered in a cemetery on the edtge of town.
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A Legacy of Vengeance
Author: John Armistead
Published: June 10, 1994 by Carroll & Graf
Series Name: Grover Bramlett mysteries
Category: Police Procedural
Main Character: Sheriff Grover Bramlett
Sheriff Grover Bramlett is a man who'll sneak a pinch of tobacco in his garage and daydream about the watercolor he's working on in an adult-ed class. But over twenty years ago, when the Mississippi summer was burning with night riders and Klan violence, Bramlett was a man who took a chance, told a lie, and followed his convictions. Now the past is coming back - to him and Chakchiumi County - in a string of brutal murders.
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