Tag Archives: Movies & TV
Robert Wilder. Written on the Wind. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1946.
Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy fancy cars and a whole lot alcohol. This novel, loosely based on stories about the Duke and Reynolds families, follows the grandchildren of tobacco magnate Andrew Whitfield as each makes a … Continue reading
Filed under 1940-1949, 1946, Wilder, Robert
Kathy Reichs. Bare Bones. New York: Scribner, 2003.
Medical examiner Tempe Brennan never gets to take a break! She is back in North Carolina and planning on taking her first non-family vacation in years (with her Montreal detective-boyfriend, Andrew Ryan), but those plans are ruined by the appearance … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Mecklenburg, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Reichs, Kathy
James Patterson. Kiss the Girls. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
As an expert in abnormal psychology working for the FBI, Dr. Alex Cross is used to calmly solving gruesome crimes, but in Kiss the Girls the case is personal. His niece–a law student at Duke–is kidnapped while on campus, and … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1995, Durham, Novels in Series, Orange, Patterson, James, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller
Alexander Key. Escape to Witch Mountain. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968.
Tony and Tia are teenagers with special powers: Tony is telekinetic and Tia–who speaks using an ultrasonic communication only her brother can hear–can unlock doors and talk to animals. Unfortunately, they also have no idea where they came from and … Continue reading
Catherine Marshall. Christy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.
After hearing a missionary doctor speak about his work in the Great Smokies, nineteen year-old, Christy Huddleston volunteers to be a mission teacher. She leaves her home and well-to-do family in Asheville and travels to the remote Cutter’s Gap, a … Continue reading
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
Kathy Reichs. Death du Jour. New York: Scribner, 1999.
The second in Reich’s series of Temperence Brennan mysteries, Death du Jour opens with Tempe in Quebec looking for the remains of a long-dead nun…but the body is not where records say it should be. Then she discovers that a … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1999, Coast, Mystery, Novels in Series, Reichs, Kathy
Kathy Reichs. Devil Bones. New York: Scribner, 2008.
In this, the eleventh Temperance Brennan novel, our favorite forensic anthropologist is back in Charlotte. When a plumber working on a home renovation discovers a sub-cellar where some obscure religious rites appear to have taken place, Tempe is called in. … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Mecklenburg, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Reichs, Kathy
Kathy Reichs. Fatal Voyage. New York: Scribner, 2001.
The fourth Temperance Brennan mystery, Fatal Voyage, opens with Temperance arriving on the scene of a commercial airline crash in the mountains of Swain County. As a member of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, she is charged with identifying … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2001, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Reichs, Kathy, Swain
Louise Shivers. Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 2003.
Roxy Walston is a young wife and mother on a Tarborough, N.C. tobacco farm in 1937. Farmlife is simple and tough, and Roxy feels restless, especially when Jack Ruffin is hired to help with the harvest. Roxy feels an instant … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Edgecombe, Historical, Shivers, Louise
