A Murder in Passing
A Sam Blackman Mystery
$31.10
- Paperback
262 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2013
Summary
Things are slow at the Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency. So when Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt at the historic, freed-slave commune The Kingdom of the Happy Land, Sam Blackman reluctantly agrees. Hunting the elusive edible, he stumbles into a rotting log…with a skeleton hidden inside. He’s intrigued, but local authorities tell him to butt out.Then Marsha Montgomery comes to Asheville asking Sam and Nakayla to investigate a 45-year-old burglary at her mother’s home. Someone stole a rifle and a photograph taken in 1932 at The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Is this just a coincidence?Then Marsha’s 85-year-old mother Lucille is arrested for murder, and Sam knows something is amiss. Is the skeleton that of Jimmy Lang, Lucille’s lover and Martha’s father, a white man who disappeared in 1967? A veil of betrayal and deceit hides a killer desperate to protect a dark secret, and not even Sam is safe from the deadly consequences of a murder in passing.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781464201516 |
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| ISBN-10: | 146420151X |
| Author: | Mark de Castrique |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 262 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2013 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Blackman Agency Investigations |
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Critics Review
“This solid whodunit offers readers a glimpse into a curious chapter of cultural history.” - Publishers Weekly
“This solid whodunit offers readers a glimpse into a curious chapter of cultural history.” - Publishers Weekly
“This fascinating mystery, merging past and present, brings some little-known history to light and shows that laws change much faster than attitudes, as Sam and Nakayla, an interracial couple themselves, discover.” - Barbara Bibel, Booklist
Mark de Castrique
Mark de Castrique grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina where many of his novels are set. He’s a veteran of the television and film production industry, has served as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaching The American Mystery, and he’s a frequent speaker and workshop leader. He and his wife, Linda, live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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