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Cutting Season by Attica Locke
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Cutting Season (edition 2012)

by Attica Locke

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When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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Title:Cutting Season
Authors:Attica Locke
Info:Serpents Tail (2012), Paperback
Collections:Your library
Rating:****
Tags:Louisiana, plantations, history, murder mystery, mothers and daughters, love relationships

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The Cutting Season: A Novel by Attica Locke

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I just couldn't get in to this book. As other people have said way too many characters to keep track of at the plantation. Very choppy writing questionable editing but ultimately it was a story I was never able to get into. I would like to try the author's first book and see if it was different. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
The Cutting Season was a good read. I didn't particularly like the pacing of the book because it took a while to get to a part with action. Eventually, the book picked up for me me during the end of part II and all throughout part III. Part III is when I basically plowed through the book with a grin on my face, which was shortly followed by the awe of how everything that was mentioned in part I had slowly built up to the finale. I couldn't put the book down once the pace started picking up.

I recommend this book to anyone that enjoys historical fiction with pieces of mystery or "who done it."

Overall, I give this book 3.97 stars because of the slow pace, but other than that, I really enjoy joyed reading it whilst listening to the audiobook. The reader for the audiobook had the perfect voice to go with every character. The right amount of southern twang :-). ( )
  Jaleesa_RBTBC | Dec 2, 2022 |
Excellent. A complicated, conflicted female lead narrates this wide reaching mystery. Family, history, guilt, jealousy and fear play out in a tense, deeply researched fast paced story. I truly enjoyed it. ( )
  Venarain | Jan 10, 2022 |
I really loved this mystery set on a plantation in Louisiana during modern times. The mystery links to a mystery in the narrator's family tree. The resolution is bittersweet, but also just right. ( )
  DrApple | Feb 17, 2021 |
Southern Plantation mystery. The rightful owner took over by fraud and is really owned by a free black man that was murdered in 1872. ( )
  pgabj | Jan 1, 2021 |
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We navigate by stories, but sometimes we only escape by abandoning them.

--Rebecca Solnit
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For Odell & Ophelia
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It was during the Thompson-Delacroix wedding, Caren's first week on the job, that a cottonmouth, measuring the length of a Cadillac, fell some twenty feet from a live oak on the front law, landing like a coil of rope in the lap of the bride's future mother-in-law.
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