PositiveThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionZerwick’s research is exemplary, and the story is a strong one. Beyond Innocence could have been more compelling if she had used more novelistic techniques, the way the best narrative non-fiction does, to place the reader in, as Hamilton, put it, \'the room where it happened.\' But she had a lot to overcome with uncooperative participants and scenes long gone cold.
Wiley Cash
RaveThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\"... a crisp, tightly edited 304 pages ... we have a murder and a mystery, and both will be solved, but Cash is up to much more in his gripping, multi-layered fourth novel about the South and race and how the past keeps a grip on the present ... Some readers may be taken aback by the abrupt gut-punch ending; I was at first. But as I mulled it over for several days—and that says a lot about the power of the book—I understood it was not capricious. Cash was setting it—and us—up all along, and it was as inevitable as nightfall in late autumn, when the ghosts come out.
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