The Secret of Magic

Winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction

"If you liked The Help, you'll love this one!"—EW.com

In a novel that “brings authentic history to light,”* a young female attorney from New York City attempts the impossible in 1946: attaining justice for a black man in the Deep South. 

Regina Robichard works for Thurgood Marshall, who receives an unusual letter asking the NAACP to investigate the murder of a returning black war hero. It is signed …