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by | May 1, 2009 · 12:26 pm

Thomas Fahy. Night Visions. New York: Dark Alley, 2004.

Frank arrives in San Francisco looking for a missing woman and he convinces his former girlfriend Samantha to help out with the investigation. Samantha, a lawyer suffering from severe insomnia, has just begun an experimental treatment to help her sleep.  After she starts to notice connections between the murders and her sleep clinic, she wonders if she might be the next victim.  The plot with Samantha and Frank takes place in San Francisco, but a series of flashbacks within the story take place in North Carolina locations like Chapel Hill, Durham, and Wilmington.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Coast, Durham, Fahy, Thomas, Mystery, New Hanover, Orange, Piedmont, Suspense/Thriller

by | February 5, 2009 · 9:34 am

Katy Munger. Out of Time. New York: Avon Books, 1998.

In the second book of the Casey Jones series, it is Casey’s client who is running out of time. Gail Honeycutt is on death row for killing her husband, her appeals are pretty much exhausted, and she only has a month before her execution, but she continues to declare her innocence. Unfortunately, Gail’s husband was a cop (maybe a dirty one) and Casey’s investigation into his death puts her on the wrong side of the local P.D., including her non-boyfriend Bill. Fingers are pointed at Casey when people connected to the case start dying and the donut-loving private detective has to find the killer before she is framed for his work.

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Filed under 1990-1999, 1998, Durham, Humor, Munger, Katy, Mystery, Novels in Series, Orange, Piedmont, Wake

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by | May 23, 2008 · 2:01 pm

J.B. Stanley. The Collectible Mysteries.

  • A Killer Collection. New York: Penguin, 2006.
  • A Fatal Appraisal. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.
  • A Deadly Dealer. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2007.

Molly Appleby left her teaching career and decided to pursue her real passion: collecting. She is now a writer for Collector’s Weekly magazine and, although she lives in Hillsborough, she travels around North Carolina and the rest of the south reporting on various collecting events. It should be a fairly sedate life, but somehow she always seems to get tangled up in murder and mayhem. The author’s extensive knowledge of antiques is evident throughout these cozy mysteries and she also provides the reader with different antiques and collecting tips in each book.

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Filed under Mystery, Novels in Series, Orange, Series, Stanley, J.B.

by | April 17, 2008 · 10:15 am

Lee Smith. On Agate Hill.Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006.

Molly Petree, the orphaned daughter of a Confederate soldier, begins writing her diary in 1872, on her 13th birthday. From that point onward, Molly chronicles her life in post-Civil War North Carolina, both at Agate Hill–her uncle’s plantation located near Hillsborough–and elsewhere in the state.

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by | April 15, 2008 · 10:04 am

Joanna Catherine Scott. The Road from Chapel Hill. New York: Penguin, 2006.

This Civil War novel follows the intertwining stories of a young woman from an elite Wilmington family, a runaway slave, and a dirt-farmer’s son turned fugitive-slave-catcher.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Historical, Novels to Read Online, Orange, Piedmont, Scott, Joanna Catherine

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J.B. Stanley. A Killer Collection. New York: Penguin, 2006.

This first in a series of “Collectible Mysteries” introduces Molly Appleby, a Hillsborough-based pottery expert. When George-Bradley Staunton–described as “North Carolina’s most obnoxious collector”–is murdered, Molly is on the case. Her investigations bring her to potters and collectors around the state, including Asheboro, Hendersonville, and Seagrove. Stanley’s extensive knowledge of folk pottery is evident throughout the text.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series, Orange, Piedmont, Stanley, J.B.

by | March 13, 2008 · 9:58 am

Martha Witt. Broken as Things Are. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.

Fourteen-year-old Morgan-Lee divides her summer between spending time with her autistic and occasionally abusive older brother and developing a crush on a childhood friend. Morgan-Lee’s parents, aunt, and younger sister are too caught up in their own lives to pay much attention, leaving the young narrator to take the first steps into adulthood on her own. The story is set in a piedmont North Carolina town similar to the author’s hometown of Hillsborough.

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Doug Marlette. The Bridge. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Pick Cantrell, a successful but controversial editorial cartoonist, has just moved from New York to his hometown in North Carolina. In the course of adjusting to his new life, Cantrell learns about his family’s connections to area’s rich textile history, most notably his grandmother Lucy’s involvement in a mill workers’ strike in the 1930s. The novel is set in the fictional town of Eno, North Carolina, most likely based on Hillsborough, and includes scenes in Chapel Hill.

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Jimmy Carter. The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s first novel (and the first novel to be published by an ex-President) follows Ethan Pratt and his family through the Southern colonies during the American Revolution. When things turn bad in Georgia, Pratt migrates to North Carolina in search of cheap land and opportunity. Carter’s thorough research is evident in his descriptions of the Regulator movement in Orange County and the battle of King’s Mountain.

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Doris Betts. Souls Raised From the Dead. New York: Knopf, 1994.

The novel looks into the troubled relationship between Mary Grace Thompson, the teenage daughter of state trooper Frank Thompson, and her estranged mother, Christine. Mary Grace has a life-threatening kidney disease and the story takes us through the emotions and spiritual questioning a family faces during a tragedy. The novel is set in Carrboro, Hillsborough, Durham, Jacksonville, and Chapel Hill at the UNC hospital.

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Filed under 1990-1999, 1994, Betts, Dorris, Orange, Piedmont

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