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Harper Perennial
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
Featuring: Caren Gray
ISBN: 0061802069
EAN: 9780061802065
Kindle: B007HBT7YK
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Belle Vie is a plantation of genteel beauty and manicured
grounds that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. For
some it represents the values of the South before the Civil
War, for others it's a reminder of slavery's dark legacy, a
time when enforced labor fueled the economy. But when Caren
Gray, the estate's manager, learns that the body of a young
woman has just been found lying face down in a shallow
grave, her throat cut clean, it's suddenly the site of a
murder investigation. There's no telling who wanted the victim dead. A local could
be making a violent statement about migrant workers, trucked
in and out seasonally, only to take jobs away from families
that have worked cane for generations. Or it could be
someone striking out against Groveland, the corporation that
managed to talk the first family in the area into selling
their farm to the highest bidder. When the investigation
takes an unsavory turn, Gray is compelled to discover what,
if anything, the woman's violent death has to do with an
earlier mystery, one that originated in the slave quarters
nearly two hundred years ago. It's a twenty-first century
mystery that forces Caren to delve into the murky waters of
the plantation's past - and her own - all while creeping
frighteningly closer to the realization that the killer may
be a lot closer than she ever could have imagined.
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