Mark De Castrique
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the deceased woman, Barry is forced to confront her family as the...
Author
Series
Barry Clayton mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Once the most polluted waterway in Western North Carolina, the toxic Pigeon River now runs pure, thanks to environmental activism. But when a water analyst is found murdered in the river, and a local festival is rocked by death threats, fire, and beatings, it is clear that someone wants to disrupt the progress of the peaceful town and its future environmental efforts. Detective Sam Blackman, an Iraqi war vet, and his partner and love interest, Nakalya...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this unusual spin on the classic spy novel, murder strikes from our wartime pasts... Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the pastand they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twin boys, he does so to ease his conscience. The boys' parents were killed in a courtroom shootout where Sam was the key witness against the twins' father. The charity event, a nighttime ghost tour of the legendary haunted sites of Asheville, North Carolina, seems harmless enough. Sam only has to tell the story of a grief-stricken...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While hunting mushrooms on the site of an historic freed-slave commune called The Kingdom of the Happy Land, Detective Sam Blackman stumbles upon a skeleton that is linked to Marsha Montgomery's white father and her mother's lover in 1967.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved - anything!"--
Author
Series
Barry Clayton mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
11) Dangerous women
Author
Series
Secret lives mystery volume 2
Language
English
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"This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law clerks leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves ChiefJustice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. We'll need an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend)...