Athens, Georgia, 1963. Attorney Guy Stillwell took on the trial of the decade: defending a Black woman charged with the murder of a KKK thug. By the time it was over, his son August “Critter” Stillwell’s world and the sleepy town of Athens were in flames. Twenty-five years later, dragged back into a case from '63 that was never solved, Critter discovers a web of small town secrets, Dixie Mafia dealings and long-buried lies...
