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Dead Letters from Paradise

✍ Scribed by Ann McMan

Book ID: 112051509
Publisher: Bywater Books
Year: 2022
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 845 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781612942360

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✦ Synopsis

Two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author Ann McMan introduces readers to a spinster postal investigator for the Winston-Salem Dead Letter Office who finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of solving who is sending undeliverable love letters to the town's 18th-century hortus medicus.

The year is 1960, and Gunsmoke is the most popular show on TV. Elvis Presley tops the Billboard charts, and a charismatic young senator named John F. Kennedy is running for president. And, in North Carolina, four young Black men sit down at a Woolworth's lunch counter and demand service.

Enter Esther Jane (EJ) Cloud, a forty-something spinster who manages the Dead Letter Office at the Winston-Salem post office. EJ leads a quiet life in her Old Salem ancestral home and spends her free time volunteering in the town's 18th-century medicinal garden.

One sunny Spring morning, EJ's world is turned upside down when she is handed a stack of handwritten...

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