She can’t be thrust into the spotlight- again.īut instead of grieving this tragedy, people are gossiping, the police are getting suspicious, and Ellice, the company’s lone black attorney, is promoted to replace Michael. Why? Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who’s spent time on the other side of the law. A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm.Įllice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a “for fun” relationship with a rich, charming executive-her white boss, Michael.īut everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice goes to meet Michael… and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head.Īnd then she walks away like nothing has happened. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss. Morris’s debut thriller, All Her Little Secrets-in which a woman who thought she’d left her past behind finds it catching up with her as the life she worked so hard for crumbles in the blink of an eye. Imagine on top of all of those things, that your gender and your race mean that pressure to be perfect is even greater. The people that no matter how kind, they fear would never understand and would never look at them the same once they knew.

The people who had a past too horrible to share with the people in their new lives. Imagine the people who are shedding their whole past. Not just becoming more socially integrated, not just leaving behind something easily changeable. Were interested in the wrong thing and never really found our place in the social sphere we were raised in.īut imagine the people who aren’t just reinventing themselves in these incremental ways. Maybe you grew up feeling not good enough-not rich enough, not cool enough, not slim enough… All of us have felt too much of something or not enough of another. Have you ever reinvented yourself? I suspect more of us have than you realize, even if only slightly.

All her little secrets by wanda morris