As the former President of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, she established a signature female empowerment program known as the Women’s Initiative. As a corporate attorney, Wanda has worked in the legal department of some of America’s Fortune 100 companies. Morris is an alumna of the Yale Writers Workshop and a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Crime Writers of Color. Anywhere You Run Wanda Morris had me intertwined within the lives of these young women living in the south during the Jim Crow era. Two sisters on the run-one from the law, the other from social shame. She heads North seeking the promise of a better life and no more segregation. Marigold sees no choice but to flee Jackson too. But Marigold is in a different kind of trouble: she’s pregnant and unmarried. Working for the Mississippi Summer Project, she has been trying to use her smarts to further the cause of the Black vote. Before anyone can find the body or finger her as the killer, she decides to run.īack in Jackson, Marigold, Violet’s older sister, has dreams of attending law school. But with the color of Violet’s skin, there is no way to escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. Suffering a brutal attack, she kills the man responsible. Against this backdrop, twenty-two year old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been in her life.
It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote.
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About ANYWHERE YOU RUN: It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Morris’ sophomore outing proves she is a “writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly). Morris, Anywhere You Runĭripping with Southern atmosphere and blistering suspense, Wanda M.
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