Tag Archives: Journalists
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
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
Richard Folsom. Indian Wood. [United States: BookSurge?], 2009.
Is it possible that three people were murdered because of something they found on an old reel of microfilm? That’s what newspaperman Luther Surles wants to find out in this mystery that moves between the Court of Queen Elizabeth I … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Coast, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Dare, Folsom, Richard, Greene, Historical, Mystery, Robeson
J. Keith Jones. In Due Time. Hamilton, MI: White Feather Press, 2010.
As this novel opens, the American republic is getting a second chance. Decades after the independent United States of America was absorbed into a world government, a rebel movement has ousted the globalists. The rebels were led by Alexander Birch, … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Jones, J. Keith, Mountains, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller
Jeanne Webster. Strays. Fawnskin, CA: Personhood Press, 2011.
Jane is deeply unhappy. At 24, just starting out in life, she feels as though she has come to the end of the road. She lives with a smothering boyfriend in Atlanta, a city she dislikes, putting her dreams of … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Mountains, Religious/Inspirational, Webster, Jeanne
Deborah Wallis. Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines. New Bern, NC: McBryde Publishing, 2010.
What would you do if your husband died and no one will give you a straight answer about why it happened? When Major Danny Weaver’s Harrier jet goes down during an air show at Cherry Point Marine Air Station everyone’s … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Carteret, Coast, Craven, Mystery, Novels in Series, Wallis, Deborah
Alice J. Wisler. Hatteras Girl. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2010.
Jackie Donovan is about to turn thirty and she still has not realized her two life-long goals: to be married to her soul mate and to own and operate a bed and breakfast at the old Bailey House. When she interviews … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Coast, Dare, Romance/Relationship, Wisler, Alice J.
Cheris Fredricka Hodges. Searching for Paradise. San Jose: Writers Club Press, 2001.
Kenya Washington is just starting out as a journalist. After a stint in Georgia, she is back in North Carolina, working in Greensboro. She likes being back in the state where she went to college and feels that she is … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2001, Guilford, Hodges, Cheris F., Mecklenburg, Piedmont
Sharon Wildwind. Soldier on the Porch. Detroit: Five Star, 2007.
For the past two years, former military policewoman Avivah Rosen has been trying to make a new life in Asheville, North Carolina and to forget about her role in a scandal in Vietnam. However, after a deadly explosion at the … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Buncombe, Madison, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Suspense/Thriller, Wildwind, Sharon
Edward Vaughn. The Evil That Men Do. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007.
The Ku Klux Klan was a dividing force in many southern families in the middle of the twentieth century. For the Morris-McConnell family of Cumberland County this is especially true. In a story that spans the 1930s to the early … Continue reading
