Category Archives: 2006

2006

by | May 13, 2008 · 4:27 pm

Dan Fitzgerald. Hidden Agendas : A New York – North Carolina Novel. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006.

Set in the bowling-happy 1980s, this novel focuses on Edward Karol, a New Yorker hired to compete in a bowling match with a $20 million prize. Afraid that his opponent’s supporters might try to harm him, Edward goes into hiding. His immediate problem solved, he then tries to get in regular practice and figure out how to safely get to the match in Arizona, all while dealing with family and personal pressures unrelated to the competition.

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by | May 7, 2008 · 4:02 pm

Phil Bowie. Guns. Palm Beach, FL: Medallion Press, 2006.

Sam Bass is a man with a past. When his heroic rescue of an elderly couple lands him in the news, dangerous characters from that past shatter his happy new life on Ocracoke Island. Bass’s beautiful girlfriend, a Cherokee by birth, is murdered, and Bass turns to her father for the training he needs to enact his revenge.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Bowie, Phil, Coast, Hyde, Mountains, Suspense/Thriller

by | May 6, 2008 · 4:51 pm

Flora Ann Scearce. Cotton Mill Girl. Mustag, OK: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2006.

This novel follows Selena “Sippy” Wright as she joins the workforce at the tender age of twelve. Work as a “linthead’ in a cotton mill in Gastonia is hard, but Sippy makes lifelong friends and comes to see her own strengths. The hardships of early twentieth century mill life are vividly portrayed, but this is a book in the Oprah model–grit, good sense, and loving friends and family help a young girl grow in wisdom and happiness. This is the second Sippy Wright novel; Singer of an Empty Day (published in 1997) told the story of Sippy’s early life in a small mountain community.

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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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J.D. Rhoades. Good Day in Hell. New York: St. Martin’s, 2006.

Fayetteville-based bounty hunter Jack Keller returns in this sequel to The Devil’s Right Hand. Teamed up with his new girlfriend, a local sheriff’s deputy, Keller pursues a couple of murderers across the state.

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by | · 10:12 am

Susan S. Kelly. The Last of Something. New York: Pegasus, 2006.

Twenty years after they met in college, three women gather for a reunion in the fictional coastal town of Dune Ridge. While they wait for their husbands to arrive, and keep their eye on an approaching hurricane, they tell old stories and discuss their lives.

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by | · 10:11 am

Vicki Lane. Art’s Blood. New York: Dell, 2006.

Elizabeth Goodweather, who first appeared in Lane’s Signs in the Blood, is back in another mountain mystery. Elizabeth pursues the case of a murdered local artist in a story that takes place among the arts community in and around Asheville.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Buncombe, Lane, Vicki, Mountains, Mystery, Novels in Series

by | April 16, 2008 · 4:55 pm

Mark de Castrique. Foolish Undertaking. Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006.

Barry Clayton, a funeral director in fictional Gainesboro, N.C., is back after appearing in de Castrique’s earlier novel, Dangerous Undertaking. Clayton’s business is thrust into the national spotlight when the body of a Montagnard man reknowned for helping American soldiers in Vietnam is stolen. Clayton must deal with the grieving family, angry Vietnam veterans, and powerful politicians while he pursues the case.

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Charles Frazier. Thirteen Moons. New York: Random House, 2006.

Loosely based on the life of frontiersman William Holland Thomas, narrator Will Cooper provides a detailed picture of life in western North Carolina in the early nineteenth-century. After working as a “bound boy” at a “trade post at the edge of the Nation,” Will is adopted by a Cherokee elder, Bear. Will eventually leads the clan as a white Indian chief and then as a Colonel for the Confederacy. Still haunted by the memory of his one true love, Claire, Will escapes solitude through his travels.

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by | April 15, 2008 · 11:13 am

Jane Tesh. A Case of Imagination. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006.

Madeline Maclin is the former Miss Parkland in the fictional Piedmont town of Parkland, N.C. She has just opened a detective agency and is having a hard time getting people to take her seriously. That changes quickly when a friend and potential love interest inherits a house in nearby (and also fictional) Celosia where Maclin gets mixed up in a local beauty pageant and is soon involved in her first murder investigation.

This is the first novel in Tesh’s Maclin Investigations series.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Humor, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont, Tesh, Jane

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