Tag Archives: Journalists
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
Kevin Burton McGuire. Fire Gazer: Arson at the Wolfe House. Asheville, NC: Reminiscing Books, 2009.
It’s the summer of 1998 and newspaper reporter Ben Jennings is assigned to interview a man who claims to have seen ghosts on the grounds of the old Highland Hospital in Asheville. DC is that man. He’s intelligent and provocative … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Buncombe, McGuire, Kevin Burton, Mountains
Fern Michaels. Fast Track. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2008.
Fern Michael’s Sisterhood, the tight group of women who seek revenge on individuals who dodge justice, is back in the States after banishment to a Spanish villa as a result of their last adventure. Now on a remote mountaintop estate … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Michaels, Fern, Mountains, Novels in Series, Suspense/Thriller, Yancey
Tom Wicker. The Devil Must. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
Just outside of Marion (a town that might be Lumberton, Hamlet, or Rockingham), a farmer is murdered. A young African American man is accused of the killing, but newspaperman Sandy Martin thinks he is innocent. The murder itself is gruesome, … Continue reading
Filed under 1950-1959, 1957, Coastal Plain, Mystery, Wicker, Tom
Kathryn Lilley. A Killer Workout. New York: Signet, 2008.
The second book in the Fat City mystery series opens with Durham TV reporter Kate Gallagher enjoying both personal and professional success, but once again struggling with her weight. In order to win her diet battle, she signs up for … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Durham, Humor, Lilley, Kathryn, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont
Kathryn Lilley. Dying to Be Thin. New York: Signet, 2007.
After being laid off from her Boston-based TV producer job, Kate Gallagher dreams of becoming an on-air investigative reporter. To do so she needs to lose some weight, so she uses her severance pay as a down-payment for a 12-week … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Durham, Humor, Lilley, Kathryn, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont
Kathy Reichs. Deadly Decisions. New York: Scribner, 2000.
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is caught in the middle of an outlaw biker gang-war in Deadly Decisions, the fourth book in Reich’s series of mysteries. While investigating the deaths of both bikers and innocents caught in their crossfire, Tempe finds … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Reichs, Kathy, Suspense/Thriller, Wake
Christian Reid. Miss Churchill, a Study. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1887.
Most of the action in this novel takes places outside of North Carolina. Through the generosity of a journalist-adventurer Bernard Lysle, Cecil Churchill gets to leave her family’s plantation and travel to Europe and the Middle East. Lysle is smitten … Continue reading
Filed under 1880-1889, 1887, Novels to Read Online, Reid, Christian, Romance/Relationship
