Beauty in the Blood: A Novel - Couverture souple

Carter, Charlotte

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0593467280 ISBN 13 : 9780593467282

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025

Synopsis

A curse rolls out over centuries, murky and unknowable as swamp waters, shaping and destroying lives.

Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced– and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither understand nor control is manipulating her memory and driving her to unexplained acts of violence and destruction. At the same time, Sarah is swept up in a highly charged relationship with a work colleague that portends a danger of its own. As she moves through her privileged life in New York, Sarah comes to learn how her past—her haunted history—is intertwined with America’s.

Yvonne Howard was born into the working class. Now, after years as a prison guard, she has reinvented herself. Her passion for cooking has landed her a position at a trendy soul food restaurant, and she is looking forward to a glamorous career. Then an ex-inmate named Bitty appears, demanding Yvonne’s help investigating her brother’s shocking death. Before long, Bitty too is dead, and Yvonne is pulled back into a world of ugly violence. Smart but unschooled, Yvonne finds herself in the unlikely role of detective: it is she who must unravel the dark and blood-soaked history that not only doomed Bitty and her brother, but also determined beautiful Sarah Toomey’s fate.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

CHARLOTTE CARTER is the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery series. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of American and British anthologies. Charlotte Carter has lived in the American Midwest, North Africa, and France. She currently resides in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593467280
• ISBN 13: 9780593467282
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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