Wrong Guy G.D. Gearino

978-1-878086-99-0 1-878086-99-5 $24.95 hardcover 51/2 x 81/2 220 pages Down Home Press

Lawyer Cook isn't living the life he had in mind.  He's back in Holly Hill, the Georgia hometown he thought he had left behind, living in a rundown mobile home.  His wife has abandoned him, and he's been laid off as an arson investigator.  Still he gets a call on a cold January night.  A black church has burned and a body has been found inside.  Arson it is, and a suspect quickly surfaces.  A white loner fired from his job in a dispute over a Confederate flag decal had been making veiled threats.  But this is not Cook's case alone. A federal agent arrives, sent to make clear that a resurgence of old-style Southern hatred will not be tolerated.  National reporters descend on Holly Hill, including one who doesn't worry about facts getting in the way of a good story.  To complicate matters, the dead man's sister in law believes Cook is pursuing the wrong guy.  Fast-paced and suspenseful, Wrong Guy is a vivid portrait of the complexity of the modern South and a chilling lesson that truth has little chance against perception in a media-saturated world. about the author Dan Gearino, a columnist for the News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, is the author of three acclaimed novels, What the Deaf-Mute Heard, Counting Coup, and Blue Hole.