Broke, unmarried, haunted by the nagging ghost of great-great-grandmother's nanny, and about to lose the family plantation, Sarah Booth is in no condition to fall in love and investigate a murder, but she finds herself doing both.
Mississippi
- Auteur:Haines, CarolynSommaire:
- Auteur:Faulkner, WilliamSommaire:
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey...
- Auteur:Johnson, YvetteSommaire:
Yvette Johnson travels to Mississippi to uncover the true story of her grandfather Booker Wright and why he was murdered.
- Auteur:Grisham, JohnSommaire:
#1 bestselling author John Grisham's The Reckoning is his most powerful, surprising, and suspenseful thriller yet. "John Grisham is not only the master of suspense but also an acute observer of the human condition. And these remarkable...
- Auteur:Brown, LarrySommaire:
Down in Memphis and northern Mississippi, some wildly diverse people are looking for love--but not necessarily in all the right places. Sex-starved alcoholics, college professors, hookers, cops, sailors, runaways, gangsters, and some...
- Auteur:Iles, GregSommaire:
Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money. Upon learning that his father is being blackmailed, Penn finds himself reopening the most highly charged murder case in the town's...
- Auteur:Welty, EudoraSommaire:
Edna Earle, a person of large distinction in Clay County, and the talkative owner of the Beulah Hotel, tells the story of her Uncle Daniel Ponder, a local hero whose over-affection for society compels him to give everything he owns away...
- Auteur:Atkins, AceSommaire:
The extraordinary new novel in the New York Times-bestselling author's acclaimed series about the real Deep South-"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post). She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly...
- Auteur:Atkins, AceSommaire:
A classic Southern tale of backroom deals, tainted honor, dysfunctional family, high-stakes greed-and everyday heroism-from the New York Times-bestselling author. Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers...
- Auteur:Harris, CharlaineSommaire:
Suspicious of the "accident" that killed her parents, Catherine Linton returns to her Mississippi home for answers. When her father's longtime nurse is found murdered, Catherine realizes she's in grave danger.
- Auteur:Haines, CarolynSommaire:
In Carolyn Haines's next charming mystery, Southern belle turned PI Sarah Booth Delaney digs into a cold case when a film crew comes to town to research the death of a prominent family's son. Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and...
- Auteur:Haines, CarolynSommaire:
When Eulalee McBridge confesses to murdering her husband, she asks Sarah Booth Delaney to dig up the dirt on the violent man to prove he got what he deserved. Sarah Booth suspects Eulalee is lying, but why? Zinnia, Mississippi, is full...
- Auteur:Bowers, RickSommaire:
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
- Auteur:Ward, JesmynSommaire:
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a...
- Auteur:Shange, NtozakeSommaire:
Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln's childhood friends, lovers, and conversations with her psychoanalyst, Ntozake Shange weaves the life of a remarkable young woman. Liliane Lincoln is an artist who exposes what she knows...
- Auteur:Faulkner, WilliamSommaire:
Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe...
- Auteur:Morris, GilbertSommaire:
Dans les années 1850, Julienne Ashby se voit contrainte de changer ses manières d’aristocrate après la mort de son père, un homme d’affaires prospère de Natchez, qui, à force de négligences financières, a laissé sa famille sans fortune...
- Auteur:Brown, LarrySommaire:
Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.
- Auteur:Lott, BretSommaire:
Jewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband...
- Auteur:Dillard, J.Sommaire:
Eight-year-old J.D. turns a tragic home haircut into a thriving barber business in this hilarious new illustrated chapter book series J.D. has a big problem—it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him...