DECENT PEOPLE by De’Shawn Charles Winslow received a starred review from Shelf Awareness. Reviewer Nell Beram writes: “As far as endearing, small-town amateur elder sleuths go, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple has some competition in Josephine ‘Jo’ Wright, who features in De'Shawn Charles Winslow's splendid second novel, DECENT PEOPLE, a mystery in which there's a lot more at stake than finding a murderer.” The book also received a great review from Jonathan Haupt for The Post and Courier, who raves: “[A] stellar sophomore novel…DECENT PEOPLE is a brilliantly threaded character-driven novel of fractured lives seeking a healing of the human spirit…DECENT PEOPLE further advances Winslow’s well-deserved reputation as a rising star in American literature with a novel that masterfully balances its themes of empathy and social justice with its structure as a small-town mystery page-turner.” DECENT PEOPLE was also featured on Garden & Gun’s list of “The Best New Books for Southerners in 2023.” Bloomsbury Publishing published the book on January 17, 2023.