The Reckoning

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Pete Banning was Clanton’s favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family; a farmer, father, and a faithful member of the Methodist Church. Then one cool October morning in 1946, he rose early, drove into town, walked into the Church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn’t shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete’s only statement about it – to the sheriff, to his defense attorney, to the judge, to his family and friends, and to the people of Clanton – was ‘I have nothing to say’. What turned Pete from a pillar of the community into cold-hearted killer? And why won’t he confide in anyone? All his closest family knows is that it must have been something devastating – and that the fallout will haunt them, and the town, for decades to come.

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A SMALL TOWN. A BIG MURDER.

A man is dead – and nobody knows why.

One morning in 1946, Pete Banning – war hero, pillar of the community and faithful member of Clanton’s Methodist Church – drives into town, walks into the church and calmly shoots Reverend Dexter Bell in cold blood.

In the years following the murder, Banning’s only statement is: ‘I have nothing to say.’ The sheriff, his defense attorney, the judge and his family and friends are all left in the dark.

What drove this man to murder has haunted Clanton for decades – and now, a reckoning is coming…

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Additional information

Weight 0.36 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.6 × 3.6 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

502

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K