Blanche passes go
Blanche passes goBarbara Neely

Blanche passes go (2000)

Barbara Neely

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Blanche White returns to Farleigh, North Carolina for the summer to help her best friend with her catering business. It’s a homecoming rich with the potential for new romance and fraught with the pain of facing the man who raped her at knife-point years ago but was never prosecuted for the crime. Shortly after Blanche arrives, a young woman is murdered and the clues point to the rapist. Blanche investigates, determined not to let him get away with another crime… nor is she willing to let his money-hungry sister marry a sweet, mentally-challenged man for his wealth. With her usual persistence, feisty wit, and indomitable spirit, her quest for the truth reveals the racism and sexism that still permeate the new south, but also the conflicts that divide her own family…and that might prevent her from accepting the love she so richly deserves.

ISBN:
9780141001975
Length:
319 pages

Genres: mystery

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She of course talks about class and race as usual in the novel but it'sdone in a manner that it feels very natural and like it's a very a novelthat flows really well because I think I read this in two sittings. You justget really She really knows how to pull you in on this one.

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