"Women are at last beginning to talk about their bodies, not only among themselves, but also in print. When I began writing Mrs. Blood ... this was not the case. So many women have come up to me and said, 'Yes, I've been through that too--a messy miscarriage, a still birth, a bad abortion--but I never really talked about it--the pain, the fear, the futility of it all.'" Mrs. Blood is Audrey Thomas' first novel--woman from the inside.
BUTTERFLY BLOOD Butterfly Blood revolves around the lives of people who intertwine in unusual circumstances. It all begins with a young male's body found in a large dustbin outside the offices of Manning's Publishers. Caitlyn Pearson a young journalist who finds herself in the middle of a murder. Mark Pearson, Caitlyn's husband, soft natured, in love with his wife and adores his two young sons, Matthew and Byron - finds himself taking the law into his own. Paul McKenzie who owns Manning Publishing seems to be behind the murders. Is he the murderer? Detective Patti-Sandi Bell won all her cases, except two cases in the six years that she worked as a detective, Detective Pole and Detective Theron start investigating the murders and the people involved. They solve cases where other detectives have failed. The Executor spins a twist on all the lives of those involved in the Butterfly murders. Will they find out who is the dead male body? Who murdered the boy and left him in a trashcan and why? Will justice be served on all murders?
In the epic fifth installment in this “compulsively readable” (People) series, Galbraith’s “irresistible hero and heroine” (USA Today) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .
The “riveting”* true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina—a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird *Chicago Tribune On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a twenty-three-year-old black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and black Vietnam veterans torched the town’s tobacco warehouses. Tyson’s father, the pastor of Oxford’s all-white Methodist church, urged the town to come to terms with its bloody racial history. In the end, however, the Tyson family was forced to move away. Tim Tyson’s gripping narrative brings gritty blues truth and soaring gospel vision to a shocking episode of our history. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “If you want to read only one book to understand the uniquely American struggle for racial equality and the swirls of emotion around it, this is it.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Blood Done Sign My Name is a most important book and one of the most powerful meditations on race in America that I have ever read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Pulses with vital paradox . . . It’s a detached dissertation, a damning dark-night-of-the-white-soul, and a ripping yarn, all united by Tyson’s powerful voice, a brainy, booming Bubba profundo.”—Entertainment Weekly “Engaging and frequently stunning.”—San Diego Union-Tribune
