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Publication Date:  February 22, 2019 Format:  paperback Genre:   Crime Fiction Publisher:  Our Noir Publishing Length:  401  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Kindle  Synopsis DIG UP THE PAST. PAY THE PRICE. For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981. Jean's daughter Amy, only five at the time, has been plagued by dream-like memories of a violent killing, and it is assumed that the murder she has seen is her mother's. But as Amy's veracity as a witness is put to the test, Louis and Joe realize that the details of her vision...

Release Date: August 6, 2016 Publisher: Random House Audio Format: Audible Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Narrator:  Bahni Turpin Genre: Historical Fiction Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback  Synopsis: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.  In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially se...