Taking us places only John Safran can, Murder in Mississippi paints an engrossing, revealing portrait of a dead man, his murderer, the place they lived and the process of trying to find out the truth about anything.
Murder in Mississippi
Author
John Safran
Country
Australia United States
Language
English
Genre
True crime
Published
25 September 2013
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books)
Pages
368
Awards
2014 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime
ISBN
1926428463
OCLC
855788533
Murder in Mississippi: The True Story of How I Met a White Supremacist, Befriended His Black Killer and Wrote this Book is a 2013 true crime book written by Australian author and documentary-maker John Safran. It was published as God'll Cut You Down in the US.[1][2] The book won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime.[3]
The book chronicles the events of Rankin County white supremacist Richard Barrett's murder by 23-year-old African-American Vincent McGee and explores the relationship between the two men.[4]
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^'Murder in Mississippi'. Goodreads. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
^'John Safran: My Favourite True Crime Books: Murder in Mississippi'. Penguin Books Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
^'From Gonzo to gumshoe: John Safran's Murder in Mississippi wins best true crime award'. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
^'Nocookies'. The Australian. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
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