Edisto Heat

Edisto Heat
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Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages : 329
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610262033
ISBN-13 : 1610262034
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Edisto Heat by : C. Hope Clark

Fire steals her breath and took her husband years ago, but Edisto Beach Police Chief Callie Morgan will have to face the flames again when an arsonist stalks the beach. One fire could be carelessness, but three? Trouble is, the all-too-easy suspect may be an intellectually disabled young man who idolizes her in particular and law enforcement in general. With the town unsettled by the fires and a string of breaking-and-entering crimes, they're screaming for closure. They want someone's head on a spike, and Callie must fight against time and popular opinion to unearth the real arsonist, who is clearly willing to kill. Her island is angry, scared, and looking to her for answers. If she doesn't find them, Callie will be forced to pay a price. Praise for the Author: "Ms. Clark delivers a riveting ride, with her irrepressible characters set squarely in the driver's seat." —Dish Magazine on Echoes of Edisto "Page-turning…[and] edge-of-your-seat action… Prepare to be absorbed by Clark's crisp writing and compelling storytelling. This is one you don't want to miss! " —Carolyn Haines, USA Today bestselling author on Dying on Edisto Hope Clark's books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falcion Award, the Daphne du Maurier Award "Entertaining and compelling start of a new series. "—Anna Maria Giacomasso, NetGalley Reviewer on Murdered in Craven Author Bio: C. HOPE CLARK has a fascination with the mystery genre and is author of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series as well as the Edisto Island Mysteries, both set in her home state of South Carolina. In her previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him, overlooking the lake, with bourbons in hand. She can be found either on the banks of Lake Murray or Edisto Beach with one or two dachshunds in her lap. Hope is also editor of the award-winning FundsforWriters.com.

Murder on Edisto

Murder on Edisto
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Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages : 262
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781611945232
ISBN-13 : 1611945232
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Murder on Edisto by : C. Hope Clark

A big city detective. A lowcountry murder. Peace, safety, a place to grieve and heal. After her husband is murdered by the Russian mob, Boston detective Callie Jean Morgan comes home to her family's cottage in South Carolina. There, she can keep their teenage son, Jeb, away from further threats. But the day they arrive in Edisto Beach, Callie finds her childhood mentor and elderly neighbor murdered. Taunted by the killer, who repeatedly violates her home and threatens others in the community, Callie finds her new sanctuary has become her old nightmare. Despite warnings from the town's handsome police chief, Callie plunges back into detective work, pursuing a sinister stranger who may have ties to her past. He's turning a quiet paradise into a paranoid patch of sand where nobody's safe. She'll do whatever it takes to stop him.

Edge of Edisto

Edge of Edisto
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Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9781610262514
ISBN-13 : 1610262514
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Edge of Edisto by : C. Hope Clark

A missing woman. An unidentified body. Summer is just getting started... Police Chief Callie Jean Morgan's hope for a day of nothing but traffic tickets is shattered when one of five women who regularly vacation together on Edisto Island is reported missing. Hours later, a body washes up on the sand—but not the body of the missing young lady. Unable to identify the dead woman, leaving her with a possible murder on her hands, Callie worries the clock might be ticking down to yet another tragedy. She has no choice but to dig into the secrets of the women's group, who now seem unconcerned about their missing member. Tracking down information on the ladies is like chasing air. Even the older residents of Edisto are unwilling to talk about the well-established, yet evasive group known as "The Summer Ladies." Edisto is heating up, and so is Callie Jean Morgan. Praise for the Edisto Island Mysteries: "Another page turner."—Brenda Burke, Amazon Vine Reviewer on Edisto Bullet "A great series."—Lynn Simmons, bookseller, Books-A-Million Hope Clark’s books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falcion Award, the Imaginarium Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award. About the Author:C. HOPE CLARK has a fascination with the mystery genre and is author of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series, and the Craven County Mysteries as well as the Edisto Island Mysteries, all set in her home state of South Carolina. In her previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him, overlooking the lake, with bourbon in hand. She can be found either on the banks of Lake Murray or Edisto Beach with one or two dachshunds in her lap. Hope is also editor of the award-winning FundsforWriters.

Moon Over Edisto

Moon Over Edisto
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Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781401688165
ISBN-13 : 1401688160
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Moon Over Edisto by : Beth Webb Hart

The past has come knocking on Julia’s door. Can she summon the courage to answer betrayal with love? Once, they were the happiest family under the sun, crabbing and fishing and painting on beautiful Edisto Island in South Carolina’s lowcountry. Then everything went wrong, and twenty years later the Bennett family is still in pieces. Mary Ellen still struggles to understand why her picture-perfect marriage came apart. Daughter Meg keeps a death grip on her own family, controlling her relationships at a distance. And Julia thought she left it all behind. Julia’s best friend, Marney, broke up her parents’ marriage years ago. Now Marney shows up at her Manhattan apartment, asking the impossible—come home to Edisto Island to care for the half-sisters and half-brother she has never known. Marney, recently widowed, has lung cancer. There’s no other family to care for the children while she’s in the hospital following surgery. Julia loathes Marney. But if she doesn’t step in, her own mother—who has never gotten over the divorce—will be called upon to take care of the children. So Julia heads to South Carolina to keep the peace. Julia grudgingly agrees to stay a week caring for her three young half-siblings. But there’s something about Edisto that changes one, and she begins to reconnect with the place and the people that she's been running from her whole adult life. Can Julia and her fractured family somehow manage to come together again under that low-hanging Edisto moon? Contemporary Southern Christian fiction Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Beth Webb Hart: The Wedding Machine and Love, Charleston

Edisto Bullet

Edisto Bullet
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Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages : 313
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610262484
ISBN-13 : 1610262484
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Edisto Bullet by : C. Hope Clark

When a storm blows out power to half the beach, all hell breaks loose. Edisto Beach Police Chief Callie Morgan is called to investigate a break-in at El Marko's, the restaurant owned by the man who's unexpectedly become a real part of her life. Then she sees Mark slide an unspent .41 caliber bullet from the bar into his pocket. A bullet seemingly left as a calling card. A bullet he has no intention of mentioning to her. Before they got involved, Callie knew ex-SLED agent Mark Dupree had a past, one he kept carefully buttoned-up and private around her. She understood, but now that past has come calling and his secrets could get someone killed. Suddenly, the man she thought she knew so well is gone, lost in secrets he won't share. Soon more bullets are left as warnings, all on the doorsteps of people in Mark's life. Adding to the uncertainty and chaos is a new-to-town psychic, warning anyone who will listen that she sees danger around Mark, vowing that within six days someone will die. The hell of it is, Callie isn't certain the psychic is wrong. She's got six days to unearth a past Mark doesn't want her to know and to protect the town she loves from whatever blew in with the storm. Award Winning: Hope Clark's books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falcion Award, the Imaginarium Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award. About the Author: C. HOPE CLARK has a fascination with the mystery genre and is author of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series, and the Craven County Mysteries as well as the Edisto Island Mysteries, all set in her home state of South Carolina. In her previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him, overlooking the lake, with bourbons in hand.

Badge of Edisto

Badge of Edisto
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Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages : 339
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610262088
ISBN-13 : 1610262085
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Badge of Edisto by : C. Hope Clark

A Callie Morgan and Carolina Slade crossover! (A standalone mystery) Regret has become ex-Police Chief Callie Jean Morgan's constant companion. Her half-assed, "good ol' boy" replacement in the town of Edisto deepens her guilt at having abandoned her citizens, her officers. When her friends Carolina Slade and Wayne Largo arrive unannounced and determined to uncover why the hell Callie gave up her badge, the group is pulled into a mystery they shouldn't have to solve—but no one else seems to care that the Edisto Witch has turned up dead behind the cemetery. In fact, Callie and posse have caught the new chief in a lie about the death. She'll have to decide whether to stay safely retired, save Edisto from an unforeseen criminal element, or take that job offer in her hometown… The dead still speak to Callie Jean Morgan. Whether she's on the job or not. "When a shocking murder leaves more questions than answers, retired police chief Callie Jean Morgan reclaims her true purposeâ€"solving big crimes in a small town. Packed with plot twists, suspicious new characters, and the Edisto Beach community readers have come to love, C. Hope Clark fans will be cheering." —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Perennials "Characters that linger in your mind long after the last page is turned." —Karen White, New York Times Bestselling Author Hope Clark's books have been honored as winners of the Epic Award, Silver Falcion Award, the Imaginarium Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award. "I am grateful that the mayhem of the Edisto Island Mysteries is restricted to these enjoyable works of fiction, and I am a big fan." —former Mayor Jane Darby, Town of Edisto Beach, SC "Ms. Clark delivers a riveting ride, with her irrepressible characters set squarely in the driver's seat." —Dish Magazine on Echoes of Edisto Author Bio: C. HOPE CLARK has a fascination with the mystery genre and is author of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series, and the Craven County Mysteries as well as the Edisto Island Mysteries, all set in her home state of South Carolina. In her previous federal life, she performed administrative investigations and married the agent she met on a bribery investigation. She enjoys nothing more than editing her books on the back porch with him, overlooking the lake, with bourbons in hand. She can be found either on the banks of Lake Murray or Edisto Beach with one or two dachshunds in her lap. Hope is also editor of the award-winning FundsforWriters.com.

The Distance from the Heart of Things

The Distance from the Heart of Things
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 276
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0395860318
ISBN-13 : 9780395860311
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Distance from the Heart of Things by : Ashley Warlick

Coming home from college to her grandfather's prosperous North Carolina vineyard, Mavis Black takes the measure of the emotional distance she has traveled from the people closest to her heart--the members of her eccentric Southern family. "A marvelous first novel".--"Washington Post".

Edisto

Edisto
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 173
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781480441576
ISBN-13 : 1480441570
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Edisto by : Padgett Powell

DIVDIVFinalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossoms/divDIV/divDIV Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina, in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother (known to local blacks as “the Duchess”), who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself in great literature and becomes as literate and literary as any English professor./divDIV When Taurus, a soft-spoken African American stranger, moves into the cabin recently vacated by the Manigaults’ longtime maid, a friendship forms. The lonely, excitable Simons and the quiet, thoughtful Taurus, who has appointed himself Simons’s guide in the ways of the grown-up world, bond over the course of a hot Southern summer./div But Taurus may be playing a larger role in the Manigaults’ life than he is willing to let on—a suspicion that is confirmed when Simons’s absent father suddenly returns to the family fold. An evocative, thoughtful novel about growing up, written in language that sparkles and soars, Padgett Powell’s Edisto is the first novel of one of the most important southern writers of the last quarter century. /div

Gullah Geechee Home Cooking

Gullah Geechee Home Cooking
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 505
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781647006907
ISBN-13 : 1647006902
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Gullah Geechee Home Cooking by : Emily Meggett

The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from “the matriarch of Edisto Island,” who provides delicious recipes and the history of an overlooked American community The history of the Gullah and Geechee people stretches back centuries, when enslaved members of this community were historically isolated from the rest of the South because of their location on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Today, this Lowcountry community represents the most direct living link to the traditional culture, language, and foodways of their West African ancestors. Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, written by Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, is the preeminent Gullah cookbook. At 89 years old, and with more than 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Meggett is a respected elder in the Gullah community of South Carolina. She has lived on the island all her life, and even at her age, still cooks for hundreds of people out of her hallowed home kitchen. Her house is a place of pilgrimage for anyone with an interest in Gullah Geechee food. Meggett’s Gullah food is rich and flavorful, though it is also often lighter and more seasonal than other types of Southern cooking. Heirloom rice, fresh-caught seafood, local game, and vegetables are key to her recipes for regional delicacies like fried oysters, collard greens, and stone-ground grits. This cookbook includes not only delicious and accessible recipes, but also snippets of the Meggett family history on Edisto Island, which stretches back into the 19th century. Rich in both flavor and history, Meggett’s Gullah Geechee Home Cooking is a testament to the syncretism of West African and American cultures that makes her home of Edisto Island so unique.

Lake Murray Money

Lake Murray Money
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Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Total Pages : 317
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610262590
ISBN-13 : 161026259X
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Lake Murray Money by : C. Hope Clark

EPIC Award Winning Series When wedding planning purgatory turns deadly… Carolina Slade finds herself unable to agree with her fiancé Special Agent Wayne Largo on how and where to tie the knot. She's finally willing to visit rustic wedding venues around Lake Murray, but marriage plans take a back seat when she stumbles on a body which might be the latest in a series of worrisome farmer deaths. Worse, when she's brought into the case, her boss—a longtime friend—isn't forthcoming with information or his reasons for having her investigate accidents and suicides. Suddenly Slade is running a case off book, forbidden to discuss any details with her fiancé, and wondering if Lake Murray money schemes are going to get her and those she loves killed. Praise for C. Hope Clark: "[Salkehatchie Secret] is another hit. Enjoyable story line. Wonderful characters. Multiple story lines. Would definitely recommend."—Pernette Wells, Netgalley Review "The author immediately plunges you into action and setting."—Angie Mangino, Medium.com on Edisto Tidings "Riveting. [Tidewater Murder] is a first-rate mystery."—Donnell Ann Bell, Bestselling Author of The Past Came Hunting and Deadly Recall About the Author: Author C. Hope Clark, is the multi-award winning writer of the Carolina Slade Mystery Series and the Craven County Mysteries as well as the Edisto Island Mysteries. She is also the founder of FundsforWriters.com, which Writer's Digest has recognized in its annual 101 Best Web Sites for Writers for almost two decades. Hope is married to a 30-year veteran of federal law enforcement, a Senior Special Agent, now a private investigator. They live in South Carolina, on the banks of Lake Murray. Hope is ever hard at work on the next novel. Visit chopeclark.com for all the latest news.