Trisha O’Keefe

represented by Jeanie Pantelakis

As an anthropology student many years ago, Trisha O’Keefe became aware of the past’s potential for mystery. While living and studying in Egypt, she began writing with that connection in mind. “Until an instructor remarked that some of my student papers sounded more like novels,” O’Keefe says. In response to her mother’s question, “All that’s interesting but what are you going to do for a living?”, the author taught school. “Or they taught me,” she says. “I’m a perfect example of history repeating itself. As one of those exasperating children always asking ‘why?, I ‘m faced with an entire classroom full of them every day.”  O’Keefe lives in Georgia where she teaches and, of course, writes mysteries.

Hanahatchee

Set in the late 1930’s in a small, southwestern Georgia town, an innocent black is set to be executed for the murders of a store clerk and the Boyer family, who was found shot by a then 12 year old boy, Jordan Tanner. Nearly 20 years later, Tanner receives a distressed call from a dear, old black man, Charlie, who taught him to fish and hunt as a child. Charlie has caught something bigger than a fish – a dead man floating in the Hanahatchee River.

Tanner is now a reporter for a newspaper. His curiosity, and the fact that the victim is trussed-up just like another body found in the Hanahatchee years before, spurs him to uncover the truth – something this rural community has been avoiding for too long.

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