Quite apart from the story, “Wake” tells about the lifetime trauma of those not knowing the fate of missing loved ones.
A century ago, the country was riveted on the real-life murders of an adulterous New Jersey preacher and his choir singer lover, Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills. The bodies of the pair were found near a lovers’ lane, both shot and the woman’s throat cut, and laid out ritualistically. Both were married, and they may have been planning to abscond to a foreign country with $40,000 that the minister had squirreled away.
When they stop to eat , she swipes his wallet and takes the first bus leaving town. She winds up in Chillicothe, Ga., and goes to work for a demanding white woman. After Violet finds out the woman’s husband is the local sheriff with a lot of questions about her background, Violet quits. Wanda M. Morris’ thriller is subtitled “Your past will find you” — and that’s just what Violet is afraid of. As a black woman in the 1960s South, she is on her own. The book reminds us of the prejudicial treatment of blacks only a half-century ago. It is a poignant story of a search for justice in America’s racist South.
Allison Parker’s violent alcoholic husband, Jon Merritt, in jail for attempting to kill her, was released from prison early. She’s convinced he’s going to succeed this time. A couple of prisoners confess Merritt told them as much. So Allison and her daughter, Hannah, flee just minutes before Jon arrives at her house. Jon, a former detective, calls on cop friends for help. Allison realizes that not only her former husband but a couple of bungling killers are on her trail.
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