In 1946, Pete Banning, World War II hero and respected Mississippi landowner, gets up in the morning, has breakfast, and goes to town. There her enters the Methodist church, walks to the preacher's office, and shoots Reverend Bell in the face.
Pete is immediately arrested and eventually sentenced to the electric chair. He doesn't deny the killing. But he absolutely refuses to tell anyone why he did it, not his wife, or his grown children, or his sister, or his lawyer, or even The governor of Mississippi!
The story unfolds from there, and I just had to find out why he did it. Why why why why WHY??
This was a good character story, and eventually the author does tell you the answer. (Whew!)
I also read recently by this author: Calico Joe
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