Still recovering from the vandalism of her home, Atlanta
housewife Katharine Murray welcomes a much-needed break from
restoring her house. When a friend asks Katharine to
accompany her to Bayard Island off the coast of Georgia, she
agrees to go along to see if Dr. Flo Gadney's ancestors are
buried there. The island's owner intends to develop the
island with mansions and needs permission to disinter the
bodies.
From the beginning, Dr. Flo and Katharine get a very chilly
reception. When the Bayards realize Dr. Flo is black, they
insist her relatives could not be buried in their family
cemetery. But family secrets have a way of being unearthed
when least convenient. Dr. Flo becomes convinced at least
one of the graves contains her grandfather's remains and
wants to know more about the others buried next to him.
The residents of Bayard Island aren't all pro-development,
but they are all unique characters. A shotgun-wielding
holdout and a family that owns a small seafood business on
the island are additional impediments to the planned
construction. When one of these "obstacles" is found dead,
Katharine and Dr. Flo wonder if more is to the story than a
suicide or an accidental death. The threats that they
continue to receive give credence to their theory.
Genealogists will love this story of searching for answers
from the past. SINS OF THE FATHERS is an enjoyable, richly
detailed story. It begins at the slow Southern pace
Georgians are noted for, but by the end the story is full
steam ahead. Ms. Sprinkle has captured the charm and gritty
realities of Southern life, both past and present.
Always ready to help a friend, Katharine Murray has made her
way to Bayard Island off the coast of Georgia with Dr. Flo
Gadney, to attend to an unsavory errand. Burch Bayard, local
patriarch and greedy landowner, has a nefarious plan to
build McMansions up and down the island—and over graves that
may belong to Dr. Flo's ancestors!
The friends set
to work to make sure that Dr. Flo's family tree has its
roots in the old cemetery, a task made very difficult by the
lack of Southern hospitality from the island's inhabitants.
One old woman even tries to shoot them! But when that woman
later turns up dead, Katharine and Flo realize there's more
than bodies buried on that land. And if they keep unearthing
the island's secrets, they might be digging their own
graves.
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