Tag Archives: Fishing
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.
Shelby Adams Lloyd. Grains of Sand. New York: Xlibris, 2007.
Jean Rein is frightened–her husband Mark was murdered, and now she’s getting threatening phone calls. Reeling from shock and pain, she decides to leave her home and her career in Washington, DC. Jean is fortunate in that her husband was a … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, Lloyd, Shelby Adams, New Hanover, Suspense/Thriller
Mary Alice Monroe. Time Is a River. New York: Pocket Books, 2008.
If your friend was recovering from breast cancer and sexual betrayal, would you offer her quiet time in a cabin where a murder might have taken place? What was Belle Carson thinking?!? She clearly wasn’t expecting her friend Mia to … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Buncombe, Coast, Monroe, Mary Alice, Mountains, Novels in Series, Romance/Relationship
Douglas Quinn. Blue Heron Marsh. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2007
Former military-investigator Webb Sawyer was recently released from a U.S. Army psychiatric hospital and he returned to the Outer Banks, hoping for a little peace and quiet. After moving into his father’s stilted fishing shack on Blue Heron Marsh, he … Continue reading
David Payne. Gravesend Light. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Joe Madden is a professor at Duke who has come to the Outer Banks to study the inhabitants of a small fishing village. Joe moves into his family’s home on the fictional island of Little Roanoke, and soon after begins … Continue reading
Bill Morris. Saltwater Cowboys. Wilmington: Coastal Carolina Press, 2004.
The residents of a small maritime community in Down East Carteret County are surprised when sea turtles began showing up in places as odd as a hotel jacuzzi and the mayor’s truck. Dodge Lawson, who operates a sort of marine … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Carteret, Coast, Morris, Bill
Terry Kay. The Valley of Light. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
In the years after World War II, Noah Locke wandered from town to town, fishing, doing occasional work, and reflecting on the horrors he had seen throughout the war, especially when his unit liberated the concentration camp at Dachau. When … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Clay, Historical, Kay, Terry, Mountains, Novels Set in Fictional Places
