Dark of the Moon — P.J. Parrish

In a sleepy, secret-ridden southern town, there are those who still believe its best to leave the past alone...Thirty years ago, a young black man vanished from rural Black Pool, Mississippi--and his violent death remained shrouded in mystery. Now his skeletal remains have been discovered in a murky swamp, along with a length of rope entwined in its bones...a rope that is unmistakably a noose.

Abandoned by the white father he never knew, and estranged from his black mother, Louis Kincaid was glad to leave the hometown that had always treated him like an outcast. But nothing could have prepared him for the ominous reaction of the locals when he returned and started investigating the decades-old lynching. With a veil of suspicion and terror descending over the quiet streets of Black Pool, Kincaid must now uncover a trail of blood-chilling evil as he hunts a shadowy killer whose vengeance has only just begun...