{"product_id":"richards-swamp-shae-coon-9798277636541","title":"Richard's Swamp","description":"In 1960s rural Virginia, three black children witness something they shouldn't. Now they're accused of murder.\u003cp\u003eWhen the town drunk's body surfaces in the Green Sea swamp, a traditionally forbidden area for black folks, the Old family's peaceful existence shatters. Aaron, Fair, and Miles were in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in a town where justice wears a white face and truth bends to power, being innocent isn't enough. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a biased Detective closes in with fabricated evidence while the real killers walk free, Forest and Betty Cole Old must protect their children from a system designed to destroy them. All while the Black community grows divided between self-preservation and solidarity, and a lone Black officer is caught between his badge and his conscience. The Old family faces an impossible choice: run, championing their guilt, or stay and fight a battle they cannot win. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome secrets the swamp keeps. Others, it exposes. But in Cherrypeake, Virginia, just post of the Jim Crow era, the most dangerous truths are the ones everyone already knows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers who were gripped by John Grisham's A Time to Kill and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Richard's Swamp delivers a heart-pounding thriller about the price of truth in a world built on lies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shae Coon,LaMonte Mills\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798277636541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Shae Coon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437620474111,"sku":"9798277636541","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_797d60db-25ff-485c-862f-6b89ebc9d05e.jpg?v=1777162953","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/richards-swamp-shae-coon-9798277636541","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}