Tag Archives: Lumbee
Richard Helms. Thunder Moon. Detroit, MI: Five Star, 2011.
Police Chief Judd Wheeler is a man’s man. He would like nothing better than to have a cold beer while grilling some juicy steaks, spend quality time with his smart and sassy girlfriend, and run the small town of Prosperity … 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
Lisa Klein. Cate of the Lost Colony. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.
The death of Catherine Archer’s father in 1583 prompts Queen Elizabeth to invite her to Whitehall to be one of her maids of honor. While in London, Catherine (nicknamed Cat by the Queen) meets Sir Walter Ralegh and becomes enchanted … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Children & Young Adults, Coast, Dare, Historical, Klein, Lisa
T. Lynn Ocean. Southern Fatality. New York : St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
At the opening of Southern Fatality, Jersey Barnes retires from the day-to-day business of her security firm to concentrate on her other Wilmington business, a pub called the Barter’s Block. She has plans for living a (more) quiet life and … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Coast, Humor, Mystery, New Hanover, Novels in Series, Ocean, T. Lynn, Romance/Relationship
T. Lynn Ocean. Southern Poison. New York: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2008.
Although she has been out of the anti-terrorist game for five years, the small print on Jersey Barnes’ government contract says that she can be recalled into service at any time. When her old handler shows up in her pub, … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Coast, Humor, Mystery, New Hanover, Novels in Series, Ocean, T. Lynn, Romance/Relationship, Suspense/Thriller
Waldron Baily. The Homeward Trail. New York: W. J. Watt & Co., 1916.
David Simmons and Ruth Swaim were childhood playmates, growing up on adjacent farms by the Yadkin River. Their parents assumed that the young people would some day wed, but when David bungles a sale of Mr. Swaim’s apples, he leaves … Continue reading
Filed under 1910-1919, 1916, Baily, Waldron, Novels to Read Online, Piedmont
J.D. Rhoades. The Devil’s Right Hand. New York: St. Martin’s, 2005.
Jack Keller is a bail bondsman and a veteran of the first Gulf War. Still scarred by memories of battle, his life doesn’t get any easier when he’s caught in the middle of a violent struggle in Fayetteville. Jack is … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Coastal Plain, Cumberland, Novels in Series, Rhoades, J.D., Suspense/Thriller
Josephine Humphreys. Nowhere Else on Earth. New York: Viking, 2000.
Set in Robeson County in the final days of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Rhoda Lawson tells the story of the last desperate struggle to resist the Union Army. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army was on its way, and the local … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Coastal Plain, Historical, Humphreys, Josephine, Robeson
