Due to scheduled maintenance, our online system will be down from 6 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 22nd.
The Cutting Season
A Novel
- set item rating to 0.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 1 out of 5.
- set item rating to 1.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 2 out of 5.
- set item rating to 2.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 3 out of 5.
- set item rating to 3.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 4 out of 5.
- set item rating to 4.5 out of 5.
- set item rating to 5 out of 5.
Add a Comment
Add Tags
Add More
Save to a List
-
Save to a Shared List
Print
Details
- Description
- Full Record
- Author Notes
- Contents
- Excerpts
- Reviews
- Summary
- A\\V Summary
Searching for more content…
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.
Alternate Title:
Cutting season
Imprint:
New York - Harper
Pages:
374
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780061802058, 0061802050, 9780062222817, 0062222813
Language:
English
Notes:
"Dennis Lehane Books"
Map on endpapers
Map on endpapers
Statement of responsibility:
Attica Locke
Characteristics:
374 p. :,map ;,24 cm
MARC Display»
Community Activity
Find it at SCCLD
Loading...
Comment
Add a CommentA thriller, set on a plantation in Louisiana which is now a tourist attraction, where the heroine is the manager of the plantation and also the descendent of plantation slaves. There are two murrders; one 100 years ago; one of a migrant worker now. The book is about racism and the politics of the sugar industry in the South. Well-written.
This is a mix of literary novel and mystery. Beautifully written with a fascinating background of the legacy of slavery (set on a former plantation now turned into a sort of theme park). The murder at the centre of the book is that of a migrant worker and is linked to the same sort of mindset that let slavery exist in previous times. Best reads of 2012: Philip Tew, Selection and Access Librarian, shares his top novels of 2012.
I put it down and picked it up a couple of times before I finished it. Didn't like the characters very much.
"This is a beautifully written novel that transcends the mystery genre and is as truthful as it is gripping." Thrillers and Suspense Newsletter November 2012 http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=566958
Boring......