The Cutting Season
by:
Attica Locke (author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781846689123 (1846689120)
ASIN: 1846689120
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
African American,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Southern,
Suspense
3.5 star read
Caren Gray and her family have lived and worked on Belle Vie as long as she can recall. Now Caren is managing the sprawling plantation she feels a responsibility to both her staff (Belle Vie is their livelihood) and daughter (Belle Vie being the only home she knows) to keep the place running. The ...
This book looked so compelling, but never got off the ground. It seemed the perfect combination of spooky setting, gruesome murder — even an endangered child that would normally make me feel instantly invested. Instead, it seemed like Locke didn't know what to do with all of these potentially valuab...
Read my full review @ http://bit.ly/VVw8UBI will be honest. I might have over hyped this book in my mind. I was so excited at its' pending release that I was chomping at the bit to read it. When I read it; I felt it fell flat from where the storyline could have taken it in darkness. I don't know if ...
Caren is the manager at Belle Vie, a sprawling plantation house deep in Louisiana One morning whilst making her inspection of the grounds, she comes across a young Mexican woman, brutally murdered and discarded. With the police investigation inadequate, Caren investigates and the more she finds o...
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