The Green Book Guesthouse
A 1950s Alabama Mystery

About this book:

In 1954 Lowndes County, Alabama, the *Negro Motorist Green Book* isn't just a travel guide—it's a lifeline. Corinne Lee knows every rule of survival: keep the sheets boiled, the mouth shut, and the "Vacancy" sign lit for the weary travelers who have nowhere else to go. But when a slick Chicago insurance man named Arthur Preston checks into the Pine View Guesthouse carrying a ledger full of dangerous secrets instead of policy forms, Corinne's carefully maintained neutrality shatters. A telegram arrives for a guest who should be dead, a cousin stumbles in from the woods with bullet holes in her story, and Sheriff Grover's deputies are circling the property with headlights blacked out.

By midnight, the guesthouse has become a pressure cooker where the NAACP's most critical voting-rights evidence is hidden in an attic trunk, a murdered activist's ghost rides the night wind, and Corinne—a widow with a mortgage, a sharp-tongued uncle, and a revolver she knows how to use—stands between the law and the lawless. With prose that crackles like a dry thunderstorm, *The Green Book Guesthouse* transforms a single night on Pine Street into a masterclass in historical suspense, where every creaking floorboard hides a witness, every shadow holds a Klansman, and the Green Book's promise of "safe harbor" is tested by fire.

From the author who turns Jim Crow's backroads into a chessboard of wit and nerve, this is a mystery that doesn't just ask whodunit—it asks who survives when the sun goes down in Alabama.