Category Archives: Novels by Region
Deborah Wallis. Child’s Play. New Bern, NC: McBryde Publishing, 2011.
The subject matter of this book is every parent’s worst nightmare: the kidnapping of children by a pedophile ring. When Abby Weaver sees the Amber Alert message for a missing boy on her television, she wants to take action. Abby … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Craven, Novels in Series, Onslow, Wallis, Deborah
Suzetta Perkins. Betrayed. Silver Spring, MD: Strebor Books, 2011.
When her daughter Afrika insists on attending North Carolina Central University, Mimi Bailey feels she has no choice but to move back to Durham, North Carolina to support her daughter. Mimi also attended NCCU, but only for her freshman year, … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Durham, Perkins, Suzetta, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller
Laura S. Wharton. Leaving Lukens. Mt. Airy, NC: Broad Creek Press, 2011.
In June of 1942, Lukens is a small town on the North Carolina coast, and it’s getting smaller. Residents left first in trickles, but now they’re crossing the Neuse in a torrent to places like Oriental, with its modern conveniences … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Carteret, Coast, Craven, Historical, Pamlico, Suspense/Thriller, Wharton, Laura S.
Roy Irwin Gift. Moon Blue.[United States]: Spirit Books, 2011.
Sergeant Holly Rollins comes home to Raleigh, North Carolina in the spring of 1943 to recover from the bloody carnage he experienced on Guadalcanal. With him he brings malaria and a lung fungus, a load of shrapnel embedded in his … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Gift, Roy Irwin, Historical, Mystery, Piedmont, Wake
Maddie James. The Quest. Edgewater, FL: Resplendence Publishing, 2010.
This third novel in The Legend of Blackbeard’s Chalice series finds Jackson Porter traveling through time to fulfill his mother’s dying wish–that he search for what is rightfully his. His quest takes him from eighteenth century Ocracoke Island to twenty-first … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Coast, Hyde, James, Maddie, Novels in Series, Suspense/Thriller
John Sayles. A Moment in the Sun. San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2011.
This big book takes readers back to the America of the late nineteenth century with all of that period’s optimism, adventurism, technological progress–and its imperialism and racism. Part of the story takes place in Wilmington, North Carolina where two families–one … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Historical, New Hanover, Sayles, John
Gardner Martin Kelley. The Outer Banks Sea Gypsies. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2011.
Captain Gardner Martin Kelley has “many tales to tell” from a long life spent working on yachts, steamships, and in a World War II Liberty Shipyard. Born in 1913 on an island off the coast of Maine, this ninety-eight-year-old author … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Historical, Kelley, Gardner Martin, Suspense/Thriller
Mike Sanders. Thirsty 2. East Orange, NJ: Wahida Clark Presents, 2011.
Justice Dial is back in this bloody sequel to Thirsty, Mike Sanders’s novel about hustling on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. Beautiful, clever, and ruthless, Justice used to make loads of cash by seducing men, gleaning the location of … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Mecklenburg, Piedmont, Sanders, Mike, Suspense/Thriller
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
