Category Archives: 2005

2005

Jude Deveraux. First Impressions. New York: Atria, 2005.

After her daughter’s wedding, Eden Palmer begins to think about making changes in her own life. She leaves New York for Arundel, N.C., a fictional town in eastern North Carolina, to take over a charming old house she has inherited. Eden begins spending time with two different men — a local lawyer who is one of the town’s most eligible bachelors and a rugged, mysterious man who is also a newcomer to the town. Eden finds that it’s difficult to start over, especially when events from her past keep coming back to haunt her.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coastal Plain, Deveraux, Jude, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Romance/Relationship

Kaye Gibbons. The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster. New York: Harcourt, 2005.

Ellen Foster, returning eight years after the acclaimed novel in which she first appeared, is now fifteen and driven to succeed. She is an excellent student, a budding poet, and is applying for early admission to Harvard. Perhaps more important for readers, she is still a lively and distinctive narrator. This sequel finds Ellen returning to North Carolina and attending the State Fair in Raleigh.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Gibbons, Kaye, Piedmont, Wake

Dewey Lambdin. What Lies Buried: A Novel of Old Cape Fear. Ithaca, N.Y.: McBooks Press, 2005.

This historical novel, set in and around 18th-century Wilmington, traces the events around the murder of a political leader. After Harry Tresmayne is found murdered beside a Cape Fear road, his friend Matthew Livesey finds that both motives and suspects abound.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coast, Historical, Lambdin, Dewey, New Hanover

Lynne Hinton. The Arms of God. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.

Alice Jacobs’s life takes a dramatic turn when her mother, who had abandoned her as a toddler decades before, shows up at her front door. There isn’t much time for catching up, as her mother dies only a few weeks later. The sudden reunion rekindles Alice’s interest in her past and, using a scrapbook full of clues, she pieces together her mother’s story–starting with her Greensboro childhood–and begins to understand the woman who left her behind.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Guilford, Hinton, Lynne, Piedmont

Sharon Wildwind. Some Welcome Home. Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2005.

Elizabeth Pepperhawk has just come back from Vietnam to serve at the army hospital at Fort Bragg.  She had barely arrived when she comes across the dead body of a solider who was supposed to have died overseas two years before.  When the Military Police are hesitant to pursue the case through to the end, Pepperhawk enlists the help of officer Avivah Rosen and the two women track the clues on their own.  The story is told from the alternating perspectives of Pepperhawk and Rosen and is a rich glimpse into life on a military base in the early 1970s.

This is the first novel in the Elizabeth Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen Vietnam Veteran Mystery Series.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Mystery, Novels in Series, Wildwind, Sharon

Nicholas Sparks. True Believer. New York: Warner, 2005.

When it looks like ghosts are haunting a cemetery in Boone Creek, N.C., science writer Jeremy Marsh comes to town to investigate. Marsh expected to find a plausible explanation for the ghostly visions, but did not plan on falling for a local librarian, who also happens to the granddaughter of the town psychic. Marsh finds himself questioning his own beliefs and must figure out how much he will let the budding romance affect his life and career.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Novels in Series, Sparks, Nicholas, Watauga

J.D. Rhoades. The Devil’s Right Hand. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.

Jack Keller is a bail bondsman and a veteran of the first Gulf War. Still scarred by memories of battle, his life doesn’t get any easier when he’s caught in the middle of a violent struggle in Fayetteville. Jack is on the trail of an elusive bail-jumper who has just murdered a local Lumbee man whose vengeful sons compete with Jack to see who can catch the fleeing killer first. To make things even more complicated, the Fayetteville police department seems to have it in for Jack, so that while he pursues his quarry he’s forced to stay one step ahead of the law. This is the first in Rhoade’s series of Jack Keller thrillers.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Novels in Series, Rhoades, J.D., Suspense/Thriller

Reynolds Price. The Good Priest’s Son. New York: Scribner, 2005.

On September 11, 2001, Mabry Kincaid is flying home from a relaxing vacation in Italy when the terrorist attacks hit. Unable to return to his apartment in New York, he travels instead to his father’s house in the fictional town of Wells in eastern North Carolina. In the time he spends back at home, Mabry tries to reconcile his relationship with his ailing father and come to terms with his own past in North Carolina, which he thought he had escaped by moving to New York. In the midst of personal crises, and set against the chaos and tragedy in New York, there is also the compelling mystery of a painting which Mabry, an art dealer, has recently acquired and suspects to be a Van Gogh.

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T. R. Pearson. Glad News of the Natural World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Pearson’s widely-acclaimed first novel, A Short History of a Small Place, was the story of young Louis Benfield of Neely, N.C. Now, twenty years later, Pearson returns to Neely and picks up the story of 34- year-old Louis. Tired of his listless life at home and his dead-end job, Louis moves to New York city, but things don’t get a whole lot better. He bounces from one odd job to another and makes several desperate stabs at romance that are only doomed to fail. It is only when tragedy strikes his family that Louis is forced to make responsible decisions and, in a way, finally grows up.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Pearson, T. R., Piedmont, Rockingham

Michael Parker. If You Want Me to Stay. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2005.

With his mother gone, having abandoned the family, and his father ravaged by mental illness, fourteen- year-old Joel Junior is forced into adulthood. When their father becomes violent, Joel takes his two younger brothers and leaves in search of some way to save the family. The novel takes place in the 1970s in and around Trent, the same fictional eastern North Carolina town in which two of Parker’s previous novels were set. Joel narrates the story in a vivid first person, his worries interspersed with the music of the day running through his head.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coastal Plain, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Parker, Michael