Those We Thought We Knew

One summer in a small North Carolina town, two outsiders arrive, each with the aim of disrupting the status quo. One is a KKK member laying low after crossing the law in Mississippi, the other a Black college-aged artist activist spending the summer with her grandma. Following vandalism, intimidation, and even a murder, some in town seek to restore a sense of peace while others ask if there ever was any. A riveting mystery with a particular sense of place that asks more global questions about human nature and what it means to live in community. Joy’s best yet. For fans of William Kent Krueger’s Iron Lake and Ausma Zehanat Khan’s The Unquiet Dead.