![]() ![]() Both Danielle Posey and the prime suspect-her boyfriend-are white, but Danielle had secrets her friends won't reveal. Though the local culture's no longer built around segregation, racism still exists at a deep level that Anna finds unsettling. Anna wonders whether the sheet's a red herring, but she can't dismiss it entirely. ![]() There are plenty of reasons her friends and family might have wanted Danielle Posey dead, ranging from her $40,000 insurance policy to jealousy to flat-out insanity. But she's got more than an unhealthy diet to worry about-as the first female district ranger on the Trace, she immediately encounters more than a few good ol' boys and local miscreants who resent her authority, especially after a 17-year-old beauty is murdered on a booze-soaked prom night near the Trace, her head covered with a KKK-style sheet. Anna's mental images of Mississippi come from black-and-white stock photos from the civil rights movement of the 1960s, so it's not surprising that she finds it beautiful but strange, its residents caught in a teased-hair, fried-food time warp. ![]() After her urban adventures on New York's Ellis Island in Liberty Falling, park ranger Anna Pigeon has finally "heeded the ticking of her bureaucratic clock" and signed on for a promotion in the boonies: district ranger on the Natchez Trace Parkway. ![]()
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