Events

BATT HUMPHREYS will discuss and sign his moving historical novel, DEAD WEIGHT, based on the true story of Nealy Duncan in 1910 Charleston. Duncan was a young black man arrested on the eve of his wedding for the murder of a Jewish merchant. Duncan was the last man hanged by the state, after a trial that Humphries' research shows raised considerable doubt. With his own background as CBS news producer, Humphreys creates a fictional New York journalist to tell the story of the role of race in southern justice with outsider perspective. Harlan Coben calls it "A stunning story, masterfully told."