Tag Archives: Cherokees
Lois Gladys Leppard. The Mandie Collection, Volume Three. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2008.
This selection of novels in the Mandie series follows the heroine chronologically. As Mandie and the Holiday Surprise opens, Mandie is back at school in Asheville, eager to return home for the Christmas holidays. Mandie’s nemesis, April Snow, attempts to … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Buncombe, Children & Young Adults, Leppard, Lois Gladys, Macon, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series
Lawrence Thackston. The Devil’s Courthouse. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2010.
“I’m telling ya, there’s something screwy going on in our little corner of the wild kingdom.” These words, from forest ranger Lem Astin, are a light-hearted understatement. In the spring of 1974 several grizzly murders occur in Great Smoky Mountains. … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Jackson, Mitchell, Mountains, Suspense/Thriller, Swain, Thackston, Lawrence, Transylvania
Leanna Sain. Gate to Nowhere. Kingsport, TN: Twilight Times Books, 2008.
“Before I tell you anything, Gavin, I want to assure you that I’m not crazy. I’m not an escapee from an asylum, and I’m not a witch. I’m just me. My name is Emma Jane Franklin. I’m thirty-four years old; … Continue reading
Melissa Hardy. Broken Road. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2009.
Cherokee mythology includes the legend of the ulunsuti, the powerful transparent stone taken from the forehead of an enormous horned serpent, an uktena. Anyone in possession of the ulunsuti has vast power, enjoys great strength, and can find unknown, beautiful … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Hardy, Melissa, Historical, Jackson, Mountains, Swain
Jennifer Niven. Velva Jean Learns to Drive. New York: Plume, 2009.
Rhinestones. High-heeled cowboy boots. Hawaiian steel guitars. Many people are drawn to the bright lights of Nashville, Tennessee, and Velva Jean Hart Bright is one of them. She is enthralled by the opportunities afforded by the city and consumed with … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Historical, Mountains, Niven, Jennifer, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Terrel T. Garren. The Fifth Skull: A Historical Novel of the Civil War and the American West. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 2008.
It’s 1864, the last year of the Civil War, when a new conscription law establishes the Confederate Junior Reserves, which requires boys to serve in the army after their 17th birthday. Protagonists Billy Nick Long of Henderson County and John … Continue reading
Filed under 2008, Burke, Garren, Terrel T., Henderson, Historical, Mountains
Joyce and Jim Lavene. Last One Down. New York: Avalon Books, 2004.
When Sheriff Sharyn Howard leaves Diamond Springs to attend a law enforcement training retreat, her staff must solve a murder and deal with a sniper in town. Meanwhile, Sharyn has her own problems. One of her deputies is seriously injured … Continue reading
Sallie Bissell. Call the Devil By His Oldest Name. New York: Bantam Dell, 2004.
Atlanta prosecutor Mary Crow is in the middle of a heart-wrenching child abuse/child pornography case when she is informed that her infant goddaughter has been abducted. The call sends her to a Cherokee gathering in Tennessee and into the woods … Continue reading
Sallie Bissell. In the Forest of Harm. New York: Bantam Books, 2001.
Prosecutor Mary Crow’s trip to the mountains with her two college friends was supposed to be a celebration; she has just won her sixth murder case in a row. The plan was to stop in her childhood hometown of Jump … Continue reading
Vicki Lane. Old Wounds. New York: Bantam Dell, 2007.
Ten year-old Maythorn Mullins disappeared on Halloween in 1986. After nineteen years of trying to forget all about the incident, UNC professor Rosemary Goodweather has returned home and is determined to find out what happened to her childhood best friend. … Continue reading
