Jim is a ten-year-old boy who lives with his mother and her brothers and is just beginning to come to grips with the adult world. The story is set in the fictional southwestern North Carolina town of Aliceville in the 1930s and follows Jim through everyday events as he struggles to understand his family, friends, and through their stories, himself. Aliceville is probably based on Rutherfordton, N.C.
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Comments Off on Tony Earley. Jim the Boy. Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Earley, Tony, Historical, Mountains, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Rutherford
Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic forensic investigator (and protagonist of Deaver’s mostly New York-based series that starts with the 1997 novel The Bone Collector), is in fictional Paquenoke County, N.C., where he is to undergo an experimental operation that may restore his mobility. Rhyme’s plans quickly change when a local sheriff comes to ask for his help on a series of murders involving a creepy teenager known as the “Insect Boy.” Paquenoke County is near the Great Dismal Swamp and is the location of Tanner’s Corner, known mysteriously as the “town without children.”
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Comments Off on Jeffery Deaver. The Empty Chair. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Deaver, Jeffery, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Sisters Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are surprised to learn, after their father’s death, that they have inherited an old house in fictional Prosper, N.C. They had no idea that the house even belonged to the family, and decide to check it out for themselves before they sell it. The house turns out to have important connections to the family, and as Celeste and Ronnie explore the house and Prosper, they uncover old family secrets, and learn a great deal about their mother’s troubled past.
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Comments Off on Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant. Far From the Tree. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, DeBerry, Virginia and Donna Grant, Novels Set in Fictional Places
When Judge Martin Wheeler agrees to help the no-good brother of a friend who’s up on a drug charge, he is quickly sucked into the lives of a group of oddball characters on a mission to recover a bounty of stolen cash. Set in the fictional Piedmont town of Norton, N.C., near Winston-Salem, the novel follows Wheeler and his strange new friends through the seedy underside of contemporary southern life.
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Comments Off on Martin Clark. The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Clark, Martin, Forsyth, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont
This novel, Adams’s last, continues the story of the Baird family begun in A Southern Exposure. The story is set in the period during and immediately after World War II in the fictional Piedmont town of Pinehill. In tracing a number of crises, large and small, Adams portrays a large and diverse cast of characters and gives special attention to the details of domestic life in North Carolina in the 1940s.
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Comments Off on Alice Adams. After the War. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Adams, Alice, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont
