When Darkness Fell

Second novel from Susan Lindsley, whose debut novel last year ("The Bottom Rail") was a finalist as best first novel in the Georgia Author of the Year Contest. Like that novel, this one also won the ThomasMax "You Are Published" Award from the Southeastern Writers Conference. Set in the 1940's "Old South," this story is told in the language and dialogue of the era and deals with race relations, crime and scandals from that era. Interracial romance. The KKK. Murder during the sesquicentennial parade-shades of Milledgeville, Georgia. America's last mass lynching at Moore's Ford Bridge. Gay romance and betrayal. Posses hunting for fleeing blacks. "It's just home town stuff," says the author.