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Now he must choose between his duty to the law and an unwavering loyalty to his flawed but charismatic father. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis vivid, sure-voiced page-turner is a compelling murder mystery and so much more. Deftly weaving together two murder cases and their subsequent trials with colorful dialogue and a generous measure of sly humor, it unpacks the personal demons of its father-and-son lawyer protagonists, and the painful history of the American South. A retired lawyer himself, Howard Scott clearly knows well the terrain he writes about-the courtroom antics, the family dramas, the blatant racism that still flourishes in mid-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia-delivering it all as smoothly as his characters deliver their closing arguments. Here's hoping that we'll see more of Critter Stillwell, his quirky siblings, and his buck-the-status-quo Southern belle mother in the future.\u003cbr\u003e-Ann Vanderhoof, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Embarrassment of Mangoes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spice Necklace\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe genial style of Rick Bragg meets the pathos of Pat Conroy in this touching, often laugh-out-loud tale brimming with wry language and knee-slapping metaphors. The novel could have stayed in the shallows of humor and succeeded, but the story becomes noteworthy, even enduring, because it delves deeper. A correction of Harper Lee's view of the South instead of an homage, \u003ci\u003eRascal on the Run\u003c\/i\u003e persistently questions how a person, community, and region can recover from a haunted past. It's in these explorations and the answers offered that it shines. 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