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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found Gilbert King(2018) Autobiography and Mary as they makeFrom the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning bestseller Devil in the Grove , a gripping story of sex, race, class, corruption, and the arc of justice twisted and bent straight again in the Florida citrus groves. In December 1957, which brings a brutal freeze to Florida's orange groves, Blanche Bosanquet Knowles, the wealthy young wife of a citrus baron, is raped in her home while her husband is away. She says a "husky Negro" did it, and Lake County's