A Discriminating Dead
By Susan Dorsey
A Discriminating Death
By Susan Dorsey Paperback: $14.95 eBook: $3.99 ISBN: 978-1937758165 LCCN: 2012937221 Mystery |
The future is looking bright for Jane, a hairdresser in Knoxville, Tennessee. She and her best friend Rodney are opening a new salon in a few short weeks. Their plans begin to unravel when a favorite client suddenly disappears after giving a genealogy lecture about the Melungeons. According to legend, this mysterious group of dark-skinned people had already settled in East Tennessee before the English arrived in the late 1700's. Although history has hidden the facts about the Melungeons, Jane knows that the key to finding a killer lies buried somewhere in their past. She must discover the truth if she is going to have any future at all. Praise "A missing woman, arson, and murder in East Tennessee. But Dorsey's novel is also a story of friendship. The humanity of her characters shatters every moonshine-and-cornco-pipe Stereotype while moving the Melungeon people out of the shadows of legend to their rightful place on the page and in history." - Diane Lefer, author of California Transit, awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize |
