Death in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret

Author:  Molly Walling
Published By:  University Press of Mississippi
Age Recommend:  Adult
Reviewed By:  Arlena Dean
Raven Rating: 4

Review:

"Death in the Delta:  Uncovering a Mississippi family Secret" by Molly Walling was indeed some interesting read.  This author upon acquiring information that her father had killed a black man back in 1946 in Anguilla, deep in the Mississippi Delta and it seems that her Dad got away with this  'scot-free.'   Now Ms. Walling was talking to different people over what and how this happened...only she gets many versions of the story....now she wants to find out which one of these stories are the truth.  When you are trying to look into 'family secrets' what do you really expect to find?  Wasn't her father one who had come from the war  and then worked for the paper...seeing all kinds of things going on...Yes this was the pre-civil right area....Wow!  and definitely not a good time for the black man.

The author worked  hard in bringing out different perspectives in her book that really bringing  out a well written read.  Does this author uncover the truth behind this big family secret?  Now, this is the time I will say you must pick up "Death  in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret" to see will Ms. Walling expose her  father's guilty agency in the deaths of Simon Toombs and David Jones?"
Shot down because they would not run!

We will probably never know but I give it to the author for a least trying to set something that was  wrong .... right even though she had gone against the advice of the family.  As I read through this
novel this author really went through a lot herself with her dad..the shaving of her legs....Wow.... the alcohol only leading to more disaster. Was this one of the secrets?  Also it was interesting how Molly dealt with black people in getting the information that she was  needed. Just what was true and what was lies...Wow!  I found all of the people that were involved in this read were eally very intriguing people.

I thought this novel was some read and if you are in for a kind of  non-fiction auto-biography of how racial tensions were high in the 40's ....in that hom (s).... then I would recommend to you  this good interesting  read.