Category Archives: 2003

2003

by | April 8, 2009 · 1:15 pm

Greg Iles. The Footprints of God. New York: Scribner, 2003.

Dr. David Tennant works in the Research Triangle Park as the ethicist for a secret government project focused on creating a quantum supercomputer with the memory and processing power of the human brain. As the project gets closer to realizing its goals, loyalties become divided, its team of famous scientists begins to experience different neurological symptoms, and one member is found dead. David–who is suffering from narcolepsy and disturbing dreams–tries unsuccessfully to shut the program down and ends up fleeing NSA security forces with his beautiful psychologist in tow.

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by | March 10, 2009 · 1:23 pm

Michael Phillips. Angels Watching Over Me. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2003.

Katie Clairborne and Mary Ann (Mayme) Jukes were born in the same county less than a year apart, but they did not meet until the Civil War brought tragedy to both their lives. Mayme, a slave on a plantation outside the fictional Greens Crossing, is the lone survivor of an attack by marauding Confederate deserters. She flees and eventually finds herself at Rosewood, the plantation owned by the Clairbornes. Unfortunately, the same gang attacked Rosewood and everyone is dead except Katie. The girls decide to run the plantation and keep the deaths a secret to protect Katie’s claim on the land. They form a strong bond and, through toil and faith, they survive together. This is the first book in the Shenandoah Sisters series of historical, faith-based novels.

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by | December 2, 2008 · 4:07 pm

Donna Boyd. The Awakening. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.

Leo Tolstoy’s observation that “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”  is once again proven true in this novel.  The sources of the Mason family’s unhappiness are many: unrealized dreams, overwork, spouses who drift apart, infidelity, a traumatized child.  Penny Mason, a surgeon in Chapel Hill, thinks that a summer at the family lake house will provide a healing environment for her and her family.  The lake house used to be her safe place, but something at the house has changed–and not just because her husband Paul has made extensive renovations to the old place.  Penny begins to have vivid, bloody nightmares, and her husband and daughter hear strange things and see a mysterious woman.  This ghost has her own sad and bloody history.  As the Masons research the house, they learn about two earlier families and the connections across the ages that in the end redeem them all.

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by | December 1, 2008 · 11:49 am

Dixie Browning. Social Graces. New York: Silhouette, 2003.

After socialite Val Bonnard’s father dies under a cloud of suspicion, her life of privilege disappears. Broke and with creditors harassing her, she heads to the Outer Banks and the small, rickety house that her great-grandmother left to her. When self-proclaimed handy man John MacBride arrives, she offers to trade him one week’s rent for one week of work on the house. What she doesn’t know is that MacBride is investigating the same crime that ruined Val’s life. As the two try to solve the mystery, they also battle their mutual attraction.

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by | September 23, 2008 · 3:37 pm

Christy Tillery French. Chasing Demons. New York: Mystery and Suspense Press, 2003.

Black Mountain is a refuge for Kendra Salvatori. There she feels safe and loved, but she is haunted by the fear that her abusive husband will find her. Garth Fisher has been with Kendra from her first day in Black Mountain, giving her love and helping her rebuild physically and emotionally. Knowing that Tony Salvatori and his gang will come for Kendra, Garth and Kendra prepare for the worst. Tony comes, and they battle in the woods to the death.

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by | July 31, 2008 · 8:19 am

Toni L.P. Kelner. Wed and Buried. New York: Kensington Books, 2003.

Computer programmer and amateur sleuth Laura Fleming is once again visiting the fictional town of Byerly, and this time she not only has her actor-husband with her, but also her seven-month-old baby daughter. The initial reason for their visit is the recent marriage of Laura’s Aunt Maggie to Big Bill Walters, the wealthiest man in town, but after their arrival Maggie reveals that she married Bill to protect him from whoever has been trying to kill him. While wedding celebrations commence and her relatives babysit little Alice, Laura begins snooping around town and tries to determine the identity of the would-be killer.

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by | July 29, 2008 · 8:15 am

Diane Chamberlain. Kiss River. Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, 2003.

More than 10 years ago a hurricane damaged the Kiss River lighthouse, destroying the top of the tower and sending its Fresnel lens to the ocean floor. For reasons she is unwilling to share, Gina Higgins has traveled from Seattle to see the lighthouse and when she discovers the damage it sustained she becomes determined to find the lost lens. The current residents of the lightkeeper’s house–a recent widower and his artist sister–invite Gina to stay with them and she begins her quest. Gina’s modern story is interspersed with the World War II-era diary entries of Bess Poor, the teen-aged daughter of one of the previous Kiss River lighthouse-keepers. This is the second book in a loosely-connected trilogy focused on the O’Neill family and their fictional town of Kiss River, N.C.

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by | July 11, 2008 · 8:00 am

Joyce and Jim Lavene. Last Fires Burning. New York: Avalon Books, 2003.

In Last Fires Burning, the seventh mystery in this series, Sharyn Howard finds herself busily fighting fires–both literal and figurative. While her (fictional) Uwharrie Mountain town of Diamond Springs is threatened by wildfires, Sheriff Howard faces a tough reelection campaign and has two fire-related murders to solve. And her problems are not just professional; she is also dealing with ongoing disagreements with her mother, a new romance that she’s trying to keep out of the local press, and a deputy who’s in love with her.

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by | April 17, 2008 · 10:10 am

Charles Price. Where the Water-Dogs Laughed: The Story of the Great Bear. Boone, N.C.: High Country Publishers, 2003.

This is the fourth novel in a series of loosely-tied books based in the North Carolina mountains. Set in the early twentieth century, Where the Water-Dogs Laughed follows George Weatherby, a northern logging executive who has moved to North Carolina to exploit the state’s rich timber resources. Weatherby hires and befriends Absalom Middleton, a local man, and charges himself with reforming the rough-hewn Middleton. One of the key characters of the book is Yan-e’gwa, a large bear which is the subject of Cherokee legend.

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by | April 15, 2008 · 10:59 am

JoAnn Ross. Out of the Mist. New York: Pocket Books, 2003.

Lily Stewart is the organizer of the Highland Games, the traditional Scottish festival in western North Carolina. When filmmaker Ian McKenzie arrives in town, Lily believes that he’s there to make a documentary, but he may have his sights set instead on a piece of famous antique jewelry that Lily has in her possession. Amidst the excitement of the games and the budding romance between Ian and Lily, several members of the wacky Stewart family arrive on the scene and the story takes off in unusual directions.

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