Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry
Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Beverly Lowry

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

Beverly Lowry

500 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad slow-paced

Description

In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left face down in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was t...

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Moods

informative 73%
dark 46%
sad 46%
mysterious 40%
challenging 33%
reflective 26%
emotional 6%
tense 6%

Pace

slow 76%
medium 23%

Average rating

3.42

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