Miami detective Charlotte Monroe takes off for the mountains of western North Carolina in pursuit of her daughter, who has run off with the man at number eight on the FBI’s most wanted list. Charlotte and her husband quickly become entangled in a mystery that has its roots in the history of the region, and seems to be tied to the fate of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
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Comments Off on James W. Hall. Forests of the Night. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coast, Hall, James W., Mountains, Mystery, Piedmont, Romance/Relationship
Mary Crow, a tough prosecutor from Atlanta, has just returned home to North Carolina. After an unsuccessful bid for sheriff of Pisgah County, Crow opens her own practice and sets her thoughts toward a possible romance with an old flame. Her first case comes quickly. Crow is hired to defend a wealthy local man against charges that he killed a young girl. But the deeper she gets into the case, she becomes worried that the true killer might be the very man she was hired to protect.
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Comments Off on Sallie Bissell. Legacy of Masks. New York: Bantam, 2005.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Bissell, Sallie, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Suspense/Thriller
Mary Crow, an Atlanta prosecutor of Cherokee ancestry, is called into action when a violent killer who appears to be targeting federal judges turns his sights on one of her friends. Mary’s investigation takes her back to her hometown, the fictional mountain town Little Jump Off, N.C., where she discovers not just a single suspect but an entire group, a right-wing paramilitary organization planning violent attacks on the government. In search of clues, Mary probes the caverns and other hiding places in the rugged wilderness.
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Comments Off on Sallie Bissell. A Darker Justice. New York: Random House, 2002.
Filed under 2000-2009, 2002, Bissell, Sallie, Mountains, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Suspense/Thriller
