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“Imagine In Cold Blood written not by Capote by an Australian, higher-brow Johnny Knoxville.” New York Magazine
“A sharp sense of humor, wise pacing, and plain, powerful writing, makes this book into a deeper experience than you suspect…A kind of mesmerizing psychosocial-cultural drama…I do not remember a nonfiction book that seemed to bring me so close to its subjects.” Garden & Gun magazine
“Safran does a great job of looking at the murder from multiple perspectives and brings in his own experience learning about the culture, which is in itself a character.” Library Journal (starred review)
“It’s not often that the retelling of a brutal murder is full of laughs but documentarian and debut author Safran is an entertaining writer…weaving a tale that is simultaneously about race, failed systems, money, sex, family, and simple rage.” Kirkus Review (starred review)
“A hilarious and bizarre story that leads where you
least expect it. John Safran has for years been one of my favorite journalists—forever
pushing the boundaries, funny, startling, a hurricane.” Jon Ronson, New York Times bestselling author
“John Safran’s captivating inquiry into a murder in darkest
Mississippi is by turns informative, frightening, and hilarious. It is
enlivened by a swarm of creepy locals and a torrent of astonishing
details—such as hedge clippers put to surgical use in the performance of an
official autopsy.” John Berendt, New York Times bestselling author
“A murdered white
supremacist sparks a remarkable investigation that is anything but
straightforward…Weaving a tale that is
simultaneously about race, failed systems, money, sex, family, and simple rage,
Safran truly did lose a year in Mississippi, and getting lost with him is a
joy.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Originally published in Australia as Murder in Mississippi in
2013, this stranger-than-fiction true crime story finds Safran—a white,
Jewish documentary filmmaker from Australia—relocating to Rankin County,
Mississippi, to dig deep into the grisly stabbing murder of a sixty-seven-year-old
white supremacist in April 2010…The result is a bizarrely unsettling yet
often witty book that paints a disturbing picture of the deep South
today.” Publishers Weekly
“Funny and gripping and wonderfully weird.” Louis Theroux, BBC journalist