Caren Gray is General Manager at Belle Vie, an antebellum sugar plantation which is owned by the Clancy family but run as a historic tourist attraction. One day a body is discovered in the plantation fields, a migrant worker, and the local Sherrif's Department focuses on a worker at Belle Vie. ...
The book reminded me of A Time to Kill by John Grisham. I could visually see Denzel Washington as Jay Porter. The story followed the same pattern as all the rest of the lawyer mysteries, with the family of the lawyer threatened by the "bad" man. The language and setting flowed as well as the m...
Court staffers move aside, making way for the multiheaded beast moving down the stairs, the swarm of press and rubberneckers, Jay at the very center of it, his client on one side and his daughter on the other. Gregg, the seasoned newspaperman, doesn’t let more than a few inches get between him an...