| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial. By Suzanne Lebsock. (New York: Norton, 2003. 442 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-393-04201-4.)

Murder, robbery, body snatching: this book has it all. In A Murder in Virginia, Suzanne Lebsock blends two highly distinctive genres—the mystery novel and the historical narrative—to tell the story of three African American women and one black man, on trial for having murdered a white woman with an ax one sticky June afternoon in 1895 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. Researched so painstakingly that the story flows effortlessly, A Murder in Virginia is a riveting read, beautifully constructed, its prose Lebsock's characteristic combination of wit and acuity. There is even, Agatha Christie–like, a new character introduced at the end who may or may not have really done it.

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