Author Entertainment Series – Wanda Morris

Award-winning author Wanda M. Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who, after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United States today.

Deena Wood’s life has fallen apart in the aftermath of losing her beloved mother, her marriage, and her prestigious job at an Atlanta law firm. She needs what the Geechee people of coastal Georgia call a “dayclean,” a fresh start.

She returns to her childhood home in Brunswick, Georgia, to heal. To make peace with her grief, she often drives throughout the county, where she crosses paths with a widower who is fighting to keep the oceanfront land that has been in his family since the end of the Civil War. He threatens her and warns her never to come back. But shortly after, he disappears, and his very expensive property is quickly put up for sale. Curious, Deena digs into his disappearance and finds a family legacy at risk.

What starts out as a bit of curious snooping turns into the unraveling of a deadly game of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment in poor and rural communities. Deena needs help and soon finds it in a close but unlikely source as she tries to stop the sinister forces at work after she becomes the next target.

Meet the Author

Wanda M. Morris is the acclaimed author of All Her Little Secrets, which has been praised by Karin Slaughter as “brilliantly nuanced” and reviewed by The Boston Globe, LA Times, New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Seattle Times, and South Florida Sun Sentinel among others. It was named as one of the “Best Books of 2021” by Hudson Booksellers and selected as the #1 Top Pick for “Library Reads” by librarians across the country. It was selected as a Book Buzz Pick by Good Morning America, serialized in Entertainment Weekly and a Marie Claire book club pick. All Her Little Secrets won the 2022 Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel and 2022 Finalist for Georgia Author of the Year for Best First Novel. It was also nominated for the Anthony Award, the Strand Critics Award, the Macavity Award and shortlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize.