

- Fiction, Murder, Investigation, Plantations
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Attica Locke
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 374
- Publisher
- Harper
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061802058
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