When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.
When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.
Local police in a small Southern town believe they have their man when they nab African-American Virgil Tibbs as a suspect in a murder, so they are shocked to discover Tibbs is not a killer but a homicide detective from California, and they are further dismayed to realize Tibbs is their best hope for solving the crime.
Struggling to define themselves against the backdrop of the 1960s social revolution, Rebecca and her reckless friend, Alex, long for lives beyond the limitations of their mothers' narrow expectations and are separated by an act of betrayal that Rebecca reevaluates decades later.
