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A review by cherylanntownsend
Bloodroot by Susan Wittig Albert
5.0
When ex-defense attorney, cum herbal store and tea room owner, China Bayles, is called back to her families Mississippi homestead to help ferry out the truth behind a recently found centuries old deed, it’s more than skeletons in the closet that are exposed.
Leaving her own family and life in Texas, she drives out, at her mothers pleading, to assist in the swamp of trouble besetting her great-aunt, who is in the late stages of Huntington’s disease. Her own memories unfurl, including what she believed to be a recurring dream of a body found in the backyard on a midnight search.
It has all the makings of the steamy southern folklore: proprietary ghosts, sordid family history, illegitimate children, murder, an so forth. (There’s even a cameo appearance by Minerva from “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” tho in an alias.. wink, wink.)
Lots to keep track of with family lineage unfurled, but one of her best writes so far.
Leaving her own family and life in Texas, she drives out, at her mothers pleading, to assist in the swamp of trouble besetting her great-aunt, who is in the late stages of Huntington’s disease. Her own memories unfurl, including what she believed to be a recurring dream of a body found in the backyard on a midnight search.
It has all the makings of the steamy southern folklore: proprietary ghosts, sordid family history, illegitimate children, murder, an so forth. (There’s even a cameo appearance by Minerva from “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” tho in an alias.. wink, wink.)
Lots to keep track of with family lineage unfurled, but one of her best writes so far.