As Seen on The TODAY Show! Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times *
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* CrimeReads From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping
suspenseful novel where after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi two Black
sisters run away to different parts of the country . . . but can they escape the secrets they
left behind? It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to
help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop twenty-one year old
Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in her life. Suffering a
brutal attack of her own she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet's skin
there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson Mississippi. Before anyone can find
the body or finger her as the killer she decides to run. With the help of her white beau
Violet escapes. But desperation and fear leads her to hide out in the small rural town of
Chillicothe Georgia unaware that danger may be closer than she thinks. Back in Jackson
Marigold Violet's older sister has dreams of attending law school. Working for the
Mississippi Summer Project she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the
Black vote. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she's pregnant and unmarried. After
news of the murder brings the police to her door Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson
too. She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. But has she
made a terrible choice that threatens her life and that of her unborn child? Two sisters on the
run-one from the law the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a
man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for
finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him . . . Anywhere You Run had me hooked
from the first page... It's a novel both tender and ferocious-an absolute stunner. -Lou Berney
Edgar Award-winning author of November Road
