Plunder

✍ Scribed by Mary Anna Evans

• Book ID: 126900861
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN-13: 9781455126781

✦ Synopsis

Time is not on Faye Longchamp’s side. She and Joe are working near the mouth of the Mississippi, researching archaeological sites soon to be swamped by oil. The Deepwater Horizon disaster has morphed her run-of-the-mill contract job into a task that might swamp her fledgling company.

A young girl is drawn to Faye, perhaps because she idolizes the confident archaeologist. Young Amande is bright and curious, but has apoverty-stricken life on a houseboat with an eccentric grandmother. When the girl’s grandmother and her no-account uncle are murdered, her prospects worsen. Amande seems destined for neglect or worse.

Soon Faye and Joe find themselves among people fighting hard for Amande’s pathetic inheritance: a raggedy houseboat, a few shares of stock, and a hurricane-battered island that’s not even inhabitable. Pirate-era silver coins are found and disappear. And then there’s a murderer on the loose. But why should Faye be surprised by such shady events here in these watery lands settled by the greatest pirates of them all? And the oil slick looms because this country is still being plundered, after all these years.

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