Category Archives: Novels by Genre
Ashley Memory. Naked and Hungry. Banner Elk, NC: Ingalls Publishing Group, 2011.
H. T. McMullen has been roughing it. Once a successful loan officer with an expensive house, car, and wife, he lost it all to the recession. Disillusioned with his formerly excessive existence, he builds a rickety cabin in the backwoods … Continue reading
R. K. Hardy. The Cheetah Diaries. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012.
Fifteen-year-old Kenya Taymore is definitely a cat person. This is important, because her veterinarian father owns and operates a big cat rescue sanctuary high in the North Carolina mountains. All of the cats (six tigers, one jaguar, one panther, three … Continue reading
K. Robert Campbell. Second Hand. North Carolina: Coastal Highlands Press, 2010.
Cameron Scott thinks of himself as a simple country lawyer, but he does have a way of getting into things. In this, the fourth novel in this series, Cameron heads to Raleigh to argue a case before the North Carolina … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Campbell, K. Robert, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller, Wake
Sandra Robbins. Shattered Identity. New York: Love Inspired Books, 2012.
Scott Michaels is a veteran with PTSD. His faith is helping him heal, and as this novel opens he is settling in to his post-military life as a sheriff’s deputy on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. Scott has kin on Ocracoke; … Continue reading
Travis Thrasher. Solitary. Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2010.
Chris Buckley is dealing with a lot for a 16-year-old: first his parents divorced, and now Chris and his mother have moved from Chicago to the small town of her girlhood in the rural North Carolina mountains. Solitary, North Carolina … Continue reading
C. Leah Wetherby. The Cherokee Star. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007.
Three months ago, Celine lost her beloved adoptive parents in a terrible car accident. Now that the estate is finally settled, she lets her best friend Irene convince her to take a small vacation. Together, the friends plan a trip to … Continue reading
E. R. Herring. Goshen’s Watch. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010.
Jaysie Curtis and her husband Kayle lead a quiet life in Traverstown, a fictional hamlet in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. Bordered by a marsh known as Goshen’s Swamp, the town has remained a sleepy backwater in spite of encroaching developments … Continue reading
Tim Myers. Dead Men Don’t Lye. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
Meet the Perkins clan: a family of six adult brothers and sisters devoted to soapmaking in the fictional town of Harper’s Landing, North Carolina. Under the watchful eye of their mother, the siblings own and operate Where There’s Soap, an … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Myers, Tim, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Diane Chamberlain. Keeper of the Light Trilogy.
Keeper of the Light. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Kiss River. Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, 2003. Her Mother’s Shadow. Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, 2004. Set in the fictional Outer Banks town of Kiss River, Diane Chamberlain’s trilogy explores love, loss, and the power our … Continue reading
Scott Nicholson. Liquid Fear. Las Vegas, NV: Thomas & Mercer, 2011.
Halcyon is rumored to be a miracle drug–a cure-all for post-traumatic stress disorder. Inducing a state of calm amnesia, the drug helps people completely forget their fears. Those afflicted with PTSD, most notably veterans from the recent wars, will finally … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Horror, Nicholson, Scott, Orange, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller
