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1993, Key West, Florida: When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun - a ninety-six-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919: Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key West exiled in disgrace from her family in Havana. At the same time, damaged war hero John Morales returns home on the last US troop ship from Europe. As love draws them closer in this time of racial segregation, people are watching - including Dwayne Campbell, poised on the brink of manhood, struggling to do what's right. And then the Ku Klux Klan comes to town...
This sounds like a good one. I'm noticed that many of the non-mystery novel set in the first half of the XX century have some form of connection with present days. I wonder why there seems to be this need.
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