Midnight in Memphis

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Genres

Southern Fiction, Crime Mystery, Crime Thriller, Murder Mystery, Police Procedural, Serial Killers, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Racial Prejudice, Profanity, Death, and Violence

Type of Ending

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Publication Date

Nov 18, 2025

Page Length

336 pages

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Midnight in Memphis

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Blurb

Justice beats revenge every time.

It's Memphis in 1955. In a city scarred by racism and ruled by the crumbling E.H. Crump political machine, Detective Burdett Vance and Officer Eustace Johnson—a white veteran cop and a Black rookie with his own hidden vendetta—must form an uneasy alliance to stop a killer taking vengeance for decades of lynchings by targeting the daughters of white Memphis. As tensions escalate, the killings threaten to ignite the city into chaos, while Burdett’s old flame becomes the killer’s next target.

This novel grapples with themes of racism, corruption, political power, and original sin—issues from the 1950s that feel strikingly relevant today.

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Genres

Southern Fiction, Crime Mystery, Crime Thriller, Murder Mystery, Police Procedural, Serial Killers, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Racial Prejudice, Profanity, Death, and Violence

Type of Ending

Series

First in series

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Publication Date

Nov 18, 2025

Page Length

336 pages

Available Formats

ePub and PDF

Author

Thomas Dann was born and bred in Memphis, Tennessee, five generations deep in a family fighting the entrenched political machine there.

He has spent time variously between the East and Left Coasts, studying creative writing at Stanford, working for years as a felony defense investigator for the Washington, D.C. Public Defender, then lawyer, company builder, and writer, all the while wondering what he wants to do when he grows up.

He now lives in Maryland with his wife Melissa and their goofy golden retriever Benji.

And he loves the Blues.

Publisher

Crooked Lane Books