FROM PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR EDWARD HUMES

the gripping account of a daughter’s steely obsession with bringing her parents’ killers to justice, and how her dogged determination exposed corrupt and criminal activities at every level of Biloxi’s government . . .

MISSISSIPPI MUD

Now updated for 2010 with a new ending and the latest trial information!

“Edward Humes’s lucid and unadorned prose admirably suits this complex story of venality and betrayal. . . . Mississippi Mud reads like a well-constructed mystery novel.”

The New York Times Book Review

“With surgical brilliance, Edward Humes peels back the glittering skin of the Deep South’s sin belt and exposes a shadow society of almost unspeakable corruption.”

—Jonathan Kellerman

“Irresistibly draws us into a ripe, teeming darkness that is just around the corner in Biloxi, Mississippi. . . . This is a world that might have been bred by Elmore Leonard out of Carl Hiaasen, and like those writers, Edward Humes can make the wild, amoral, scheming sleazoids he parades before our eyes all but sing and dance on the page. Here is America, fat and happy, both hands crammed into the till.”

—Peter Straub

“Fascinating. . . . Humes is a vivid writer. . . . You don’t have to be from Biloxi to be captivated by this story.”

Birmingham News (AL)

Mississippi Mud outshines even the best crime fiction. It is not so much ‘true crime’ as ‘real life.’ The author generates a tension and momentum that hurl the reader through the pages. I couldn’t put it down and kept hoping the book wouldn’t end. Generating that unique, spine-chilling sense of urgency—and in nonfiction, no less—is a rare gift indeed. Edward Humes is a major talent!”

—Ridley Pearson

“Masterfully constructed to read like a fast-paced suspense novel, Mississippi Mud chronicles a brutal execution-style double homicide leading to governmental and police corruption at its down-and-dirty Southern best. It will leave you in awe of its central character, a daughter so committed to finding her parents’ killers and bringing them to justice that she would stop at nothing in order to do so. . . . A taut thriller that both shocks and enthralls from beginning to end.”

—Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

“The reader is quickly caught up in the richly described world of teeming corruption that is Biloxi, and the characters that seem more like fictional Elmore Leonard types than ‘real people.’ Highly recommended.”

Library Journal

Mississippi Mud is not just a true-crime mystery. . . . Humes uses exact description to paint pictures of a terrifying Mafia organization. . . . A well-researched book.”

Memphis Commercial Appeal (TN)

“An exceptionally fine depiction of a multifaceted case.”

Publishers Weekly

“Carefully researched . . . meticulously documented.”

Dallas Morning News

“A hothouse atmosphere of crime and political corruption flavors this true-crime tale . . . engrossing.”

Kirkus Reviews

“This book is like some heat-seeking missile. It finds you and before you know it, you’re caught. . . . It’s a mesmerizing read.”

—Leon Bing, author of Smoked and Do or Die