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by | November 13, 2008 · 4:45 pm

Frances Richter. Friend of the Firm. Mooresville, NC: Moonfest Publishing, 2008.

This is the first novel in a planned series that will follow the life and career of Sheldon Bailey, a criminal defense attorney based in Charlotte.  The friend of the firm in the title is the beautiful Liv Taylor, whose partner was a client of Sheldon’s firm.  Sheldon is attracted to Liv, but the situation becomes complicated when Liv’s roommate disappears and Sheldon finds out that Liv and her partner have been making pornographic movies. Murder, blackmail, and double-dealing figure in the plot of this page-turner.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Mecklenburg, Piedmont, Richter, Frances, Suspense/Thriller

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by | March 13, 2008 · 9:58 am

Michael Parker. Virginia Lovers. Harrison, N.Y.: Delphinium, 2004.

The rural community of Trent, N.C., a fictional town between Fayetteville and Wilmington, is shaken when a local gay teenager is found murdered after a high school party. Thomas Edgecombe, owner of the town’s weekly newspaper, begins to report on the case and is horrified to learn that his two sons may be suspects. The Edgecombe boys do not help their case when they disappear, running away to Washington, D.C. The novel follows the three Edgecombes as they struggle to understand the crime, its consequences, and each other.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Coastal Plain, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Parker, Michael

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Randall Kenan. A Visitation of Spirits. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.

Kenan’s acclaimed first novel is the story of an African American family in the fictional town of Tims Creek in rural eastern North Carolina. Horace Cross, the sixteen-year-old protagonist of the book, is haunted by what may be actual demons, while at the same time trying to come to terms with his homosexuality. He seeks advice and comfort from his older cousin James, a schoolteacher and preacher, who fears that other family members will have a hard time understanding. This richly written novel is told in several shifting voices and styles.

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Filed under 1980-1989, 1989, Coastal Plain, Kenan, Randall, Novels Set in Fictional Places

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Anderson Ferrell. Have You Heard. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004.

As Have You Heard opens, Jerry Chiffon is dressed in woman’s clothing and pointing a gun at a well-known conservative North Carolina senator. The story of Chiffon’s life unfolds as several narrators, all residents of the fictional Eastern North Carolina town of Branch Creek, struggle to understand what has happened. Chiffon felt uncomfortable as a gay man in a small, conservative community and left for New York as soon as he could. He has just returned home to recover from the death of a lover when he makes his attempt on the life of the senator. Ferrell is from Black Creek, in Wilson County.

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Filed under 2000-2009, 2004, Coastal Plain, Ferrell, Anderson, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Wilson

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