December 2018 - The Cutting Season

[El, The Reading Ninja]

We will meet next on Wednesday, December 19, 2018 from 6:30-8:00 pm at Biddle's Escape to discuss Attica Locke's 2012 novel, The Cutting Season.

From Google Books:

Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible.At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.So there will be police, asking questions. The family who own Belle Vie will have to be told. There's a school group on the way to visit. Where is Donovan, the member of staff no one has seen? And all the time, Caren is thinking that there are only so many keys, only so many ways in to Belle Vie with its six foot high perimeter fence. And as she lives on site with her daughter, she wonders: how much danger are they in? A thriller with as much heart as it has pace, Attica Locke combines a riveting mystery with a shattering story of how our history is never just the past.

Hope to see you there!

[Leah]

I MIGHT ACTUALLY MAKE IT THIS TIME HELL YEAH

[El, The Reading Ninja]

HELL YEAH