Grievances

the long version

"For more than twenty years, the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy during racial unrest in fictional Hirtsboro, South Carolina, has gone unpunished, unsolved, even uninvestigated. But that changes when Charlotte Times reporter Matt Harper sits down with an unlikely fellow who shows up in the newsroom, a guy with a grievance. As he struggles with his journalistic legacy, Harper comes to understand why the investigation must be pursued and why he must be the one to do it despite the opposition of his publisher, violen threats from mysterious forces who do not want the story told, and the revelation that his father is dying."--Jacket.