Awarded the Edgar Award - the new novel from the king of American suspense literature 'In the South' is a captivating, action-packed historical drama set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and the time of slavery, in which good and evil fight for supremacy. When Hannah Laveau, one of the enslaved women working on a plantation, is accused of murder, she and an abolitionist teacher flee from the local constable and the slave catchers who are up to mischief in the bayous. The novel deals with a part of America's historical past that sheds a sharp light on our present. Biography (James Lee Burke) James Lee Burke, born in Louisiana in 1936, was already celebrated as a new voice from the southern states at the end of the 1960s. In the mid-1980s, he began writing crime novels in which he combines the incomparable atmosphere of New Orleans with strong stories. New product