Category Archives: Novels Set in Fictional Places
Susan Donovan. Cheri on Top. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011.
Cherise “Cheri” Newberry returns to her hometown just as Barbara Jean Smoot’s Impala is pulled from Paw Paw Lake. Cheri is back in Bigler, North Carolina after a wildly successful stint as a realtor in Tampa. Her beloved grandfather has … Continue reading
Jane Tesh. Stolen Hearts. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011.
David Randall is down on his luck, sleeping in his car, when he hears police cars rushing down the street. It appears that a burglar has broken into Albert Bennett’s house and killed the old man. The crimes galvanizes David … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont, Tesh, Jane
Alan Thompson. A Hollow Cup. Livermore, CA: Wingspan Press, 2011.
Lilah Freedman, a young woman involved in the civil rights movements in the small North Carolina town of New Hope in 1966, was brutally murdered one night after a protest at the local university. The white man originally accused of … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Historical, Mystery, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Orange, Piedmont, Thompson, Alan
Vicki Lane. Under the Skin. New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2011.
Elizabeth Goodweather has seen her fair share of mysteries in Ridley Branch, a small hamlet in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. For now, though, Elizabeth just wants to settle down on her Full Circle Farm, manage her herb … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Lane, Vicki, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Anne Rivers Siddons. Burnt Mountain. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.
Although Thayer Wentworth has lived most of her life in an affluent community outside of Atlanta, Georgia, the most pivotal events of her life occurred at Camp Sherwood Forest in the mountains of North Carolina. For the tomboy whose father … Continue reading
Charles Frazier. Nightwoods. New York: Random House, 2011.
When Luce is appointed guardian for her dead sister Lilly’s young twins, her reclusive life in the back woods of a small mountain town changes forever. Frank and Dolores are not like other children. Witnesses to their mother’s murder at … Continue reading
Chris Cavender. Pizza Lovers Mystery Series.
Eleanor Swift enjoys being the owner of A Slice of Delight, the pizzeria in her hometown, (the fictional) Timber Ridge, North Carolina. Her sister Maddy works with her, the waiters and delivery man feel like family, and Timber Ridge is … Continue reading
Tamara Leigh. Restless in Carolina. Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah, 2011.
Bridget Pickwick Buchanan, despite her large (and at times tiresome) family, the wealthy Pickwicks of Pickwick, North Carolina, has never felt more alone. The free-wheeling, avid environmental advocate, with her head full of dreadlocks and sarcastic attitude, finds herself struggling … Continue reading
Mark Schweizer. The Countertenor Wore Garlic. Tryon, NC: SJMP Books, 2011.
It’s almost Halloween and little St. Barnabas Episcopal Church has yet another interim vicar–Oh, the horror! Fearghus McTavish is an Episcopal priest on a mission from his diocese in Aberdeen, Scotland to establish a sister church near Grandfather Mountain. With the Grandfather … Continue reading
Tamara Leigh. Southern Discomfort Series.
The Pickwick family certainly has their share of characters, no one will deny that. A wealthy clan with a large estate in the mountains of North Carolina, they have a reputation stretching back generations for swindling and conniving their way … Continue reading
