Mary Anna Evans, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (267p) ISBN 978-1-59058-056-1
Few corners of Florida remain unmined for crime fiction and now, happily, there's one less. The shifting little isles along the Florida Panhandle—hurricane-wracked bits of land filled with plenty of human history—serve as the...
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Mary Anna Evans, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-1-59058-342-5
In Evans's intriguing third mystery to feature archeologist Faye Longchamp (after 2005's Relics
), Faye and her Native American assistant, Joe Wolf Mantooth, leave Joyeuse Island, Fla., for a dig in rural Mississippi at the site of a...
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Mary Anna Evans, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (265p) ISBN 978-1-59058-483-5
After digging in rural Mississippi in Effigies
(2007), Faye Longchamp returns to her home turf—Joyeuse Island, Fla.—to excavate the remains of a 19th-century hotel her family once owned in Evans's fine fourth archeological mystery.
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Mary Anna Evans, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59058-591-7
At the outset of Evans's engaging if somewhat thinly plotted fourth mystery to feature archeologist Faye Longchamp (after 2008's Findings
), Faye and her team are excavating a plantation site outside New Orleans, next to the battlefield...
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Mary Anna Evans, Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (322p) ISBN 978-1-59058-742-3; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-59058-744-7
Evans explores themes of protection, love, and loss in her absorbing sixth Faye Longchamp mystery (after 2009's Floodgates). A pregnant Faye and her husband, Joe Wolf Mantooth, who have started an archeological consulting business, are excited by...
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Mary Anna Evans, Author Poisoned Pen Press $24.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59058-119-3
Evans' second archeological mystery is every bit as good as her debut, Artifacts (2003). Soon after archeologist Faye Longchamp joins a team in rural Alabama researching the ""Sujosa,"" an isolated dark-skinned people with Caucasian features and an...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-59058-931-1
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico provides the backdrop for Evans’s engaging, character-driven seventh mystery featuring archeologist Faye Longchamp (after 2010’s Strangers). The ensuing oil spill makes what should...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0169-1
A superior puzzle plot lifts Evans’s eighth Faye Longchamp mystery (after 2012’s Plunder). Archeologist Faye and her 17-year-old adopted daughter, Amande, have a job to do in Rosebower, N.Y., a town “with a history full of Spiritualists, religious...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0404-3
Archeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth entertains an array of visitors at her home on Joyeuse Island, some more welcome than others, in Evans’s meaty ninth mystery set on Florida’s Gulf coast (after 2013’s Rituals). First, her ex-con father-in-law,...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0752-5
Evans’s enjoyable 10th Faye Longchamps mystery (after 2015’s Isolation) takes the archeologist and her husband, Joe Mantooth, from Florida to Oklahoma. Faye is doing a consulting gig for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, whose members plan to build a...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (312p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0932-1
In Evans’s appealing 11th mystery featuring compassionate archeologist Faye Longchamp (after 2017’s Burials), the state of Tennessee hires Faye’s cultural resources firm to examine land intended for a new campground in Sweetgum State Park, on the...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1131-7
Evans’s fast-paced, well-plotted 12th Faye Longchamp mystery (after 2018’s Undercurrents) takes archeologist Faye to Oklahoma City, Okla., for a conference on Native American art. In the lobby of the historic Gershwin Hotel, Faye meets legendary...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1402-8
The aftermath of a hurricane that hits the Big Bend region of northern Florida provides the backdrop for Evans’s intricate 13th mystery featuring archaeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth (after 2019’s Catacombs). Faye’s husband, Joe Mantooth, is doing...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1555-1
Evans (the Faye Longchamp Mysteries) underwhelms in this standalone historical. In 1944, Justine Byrne, the eponymous character whose physicist parents died in a car accident before Pearl Harbor, works a menial job manufacturing boats, ships, and...
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Mary Anna Evans. Poisoned Pen, $16.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1558-2
Evans follows up The Physicists’ Daughter with a lackluster second thriller featuring factory worker Justine Byrne. In 1944, U.S. Army Intelligence recruits Justine to Virginia’s Arlington Hall, a women’s college that’s been transformed into an...
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