Cutting Season

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The American South in the twenty-first century. A plantation owned for generations by a rich family. So much history. & a dead body. Just after dawn Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for four years. Today she sees nothing unusual apart from some ground that has been dug up by the fence bordering the sugar can fields. Assuming an animal has been out after dark she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long afterwards he calls her to say its something else. Something terrible. A dead body. At a distance she missed her. The girl the dirt & the blood. Now she has police on site an investigation in progress & a member of staff no one can track down. & Caren keeps uncovering things she will wish she didnt know. As shes drawn into the dead girls story she makes shattering discoveries about the future of Belle Vie the secrets of its past & sees more clearly than ever that Belle Vie its beauty is not to be trusted. A magnificent sweeping story of the south The Cutting Season" brings history face-to-face with modern America where Obama is president but some things will never change. Attica Locke once again provides an unblinking commentary on politics race the law family & love all within a thriller every bit as gripping & tragic as her first novel " Black Water Rising"."