# Murder in Mississippi

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- Book: [Murder in Mississippi](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-safran/murder-in-mississippi) ([Murder in Mississippi.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-safran/murder-in-mississippi.md))
- Authors: [John Safran](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-safran)
- Publisher: blackfriars
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4913-427-7
- Published: 2014-05-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In 2009 John Safran, a controversial Australian journalist, spent an uneasy few days interviewing one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he hears that the man has been murdered by a young black man. But this is far from a straightforward race killing. Safran flies back to Mississippi in a bid to discover what really happened, immersing himself in a world of clashing white separatists, black lawyers, police investigators, oddball neighbours and the killer himself. In the end, he discovers just how profoundly complex the truth about someone's life - and death - can be. A brilliantly innovative true-crime story. Safran paints an engrossing and revealing portrait of race, money, sex and power in the modern American South. 'John Safran's captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening and hilarious' - John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil