[Book Spotlight] Last Chance for Justice by TK Thorne

I love discovering new authors and new reads so I’ll be sharing books with you to check out. Some will be for kids and others for moms only. Some will be fiction and others nonfiction. If the book I spotlight appeals to you why not check it out!

Last Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers

Birmingham, Alabama, September 15, 1963—A bomb set outside an African American church explodes on a Sunday morning, killing four young girls … and changing the world. Thirty-seven years later, the FBI reopens the case, though the only person convicted won’t talk; key witnesses have died; and there is little hope of finding evidence on the last two suspects.

Last Chance for Justice is the story of that investigation, told from the perspective of police detective Ben Herren and FBI Special Agent Bill Fleming, whose initially chilly relationship evolves into a close partnership. For over a year they analyze in secret the thousands of documents in FBI files on the bombing and the Ku Klux Klan before conducting their first interview. That interview—with Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry—breaks open the case … but not in the way they expected. With tenacity, humor, luck, and dedication, they encounter the worst and best in human nature on their journey to find justice.

Reviews for Last Chance for Justice …

“A page turner. . .

A thought-provoking work…

An important addition to the historical record.”

–Frye Gaillard, author of Cradle of Freedom

Writer-in-Residence at University of South Alabama

“. . . deeply researched

…magnificently entertaining and enlightening.”

–Judge U.W. Clemon

Civil rights leader; first federal black judge in Alabama

Herren’s interview with one of the bombers, and the subsequent trials of Blanton and Cherry, are truly gripping. . . . a stunning reminder of just how tough the fight for freedom—and justice—really is.

–Publishers Weekly

“Really masterful . . . a very compact, impactful narrative.”

–Robin deMonia, Birmingham News