"Far more than a legal thriller, though it is that .
Reflecting issues prominent in today\'s headlines, themes of Black voter suppression and intimidation, the violence and depravity of vigilante "justice," and the rise of Jim Crow drive the narrative to its dramatic and surprising conclusion..
But can he prove it? Can he convince an all-White, all-male jury of Virgil\'s innocence? The Tannery transports readers to the turbulent world of the post-Reconstruction South.
Ben\'s investigation uncovers evidence that undermines the prosecutor\'s case and points in an entirely different direction.
But local lawyer Ben Waterman is not so sure.
Who killed Rachel Schumann? And why? Ambitious Wilkes prosecutor Vincent Taliaferro has arrested Virgil Wade, a mixed-race boy, and is convinced the case is open and shut.
This is one of those times." -Frye Gaillard, Civil Rights Historian, Author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s July 5, 1900, Wilkes County, North Carolina: The beautiful young daughter of Tannery owner Jakob Schumann is found dead on the north bank of the Yadkin River, brutally beaten, a skinning knife in her chest.
History can come alive in a work of great fiction.
Some of this tale will sound disturbingly familiar to readers in the 21st Century, all the more reason to consider its lessons. . . "Far more than a legal thriller, though it is that
