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Book SynopsisIn 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 Mi
Trade Review
Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird . . . It's a tremendous book. I can't praise it too highly * Louis Theroux *
A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favourite journalists - forever pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane * Jon Ronson, author of The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test *
Stunning * Men's Style *
A winning combination of memoir, true crime and gonzo journalism . . . a compulsive summer read * Sunday Mail *
One of the best pieces of sustained, rigorous journalism I've read in twenty years. It is absolutely magnificent - smart, and wry, and emotional too * Caroline Overington *
Witty, insightful, compelling - In Cold Blood for our generation * Eddie Perfect *
The elegance of this book is that its axis is a resounding 'perhaps' . . . It is this moral ambivalence that draws readers to the true crime genre, and Safran nails it * Weekend Australian *
[Safran] has written a marvellous book which I cannot put down * Melbourne Observer *
Mississippi is like a trampoline for [Safran's] eccentricities. But the form and content of the story bring out an unfamiliar side of him * Sydney Morning Herald *
John Safran's captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening and hilarious. It is enlivened by a swarm of creepy locals and a torrent of astonishing details--such as hedge clippers put to surgical use in the performance of an official autopsy * John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil *
'Murder in Mississippi is a page turner' -- Felicity Garry, QC * The Times *
Weaving a tale that is simultaneously about race, failed systems, money, sex, family and simple rage, Safran truly did lose a year in Mississippi, and getting lost with him is a joy * Kirkus reviews *
