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...
Generations of Caren’s family have lived on Belle Vie. From slaves to running the plantation as a historical reenactment site. With a recent murder that her daughter has a connection to, Caren has more to deal with than ever.For a book that is labeled mystery I found a lot of it was predictable bu...
Attica Locke’s The Cutting Season is a thrilling and yet highly emotional murder mystery that leaves a reader satisfied and yet emotionally bereft. Caren Gray’s search for the truth has the feel of catharsis in it, as Ms. Locke uses Caren’s emotional confusion about her past to find her own resoluti...
I'd read another book by Locke, but I wasn't in love with the story. Her writing saved it. I finished it because I wanted to know what happened, not because I couldn't put it down.
This was interesting. It was actually quite a thrill. On more than one occasion, I had to stop reading because my heart was thumping so loudly I could hear it in my ears. That being said, those moments were few and far between. Tales of the main character's life, general life at Belle Vie and a some...
The Cutting Season is a fabulous second novel from the author of Black Water Rising, and if you weren’t a fan before, this will definitely add you to the ranks. Set on an old Southern plantation revamped into a tourist attraction, its characters will pull you in as much as the mysteries do.I love At...
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