Barbara S. (barbsis) -
Helpful Score: 2
If you enjoy books about the KKK, lynching mobs and good ole Southern white boys who hate blacks, this just might be the book for you.
This is not an enjoyable book. It's rather depressing and racially tense. Had the premise indicated what this book was truly about, I never would have picked it up.
This is not an enjoyable book. It's rather depressing and racially tense. Had the premise indicated what this book was truly about, I never would have picked it up.
Helpful Score: 2
Deals with issues of race and bigotry in Mississippi as a young black man returns to his roots to bury his mother and simultaneously investigate a decades-old lynching.
Excellent Author. Keeps you guessing right up to the very end!
Thirty years ago a young man mysterously vanished from rural Black Pool, Mississippi. Now his skeleton has been found in a murky swamp, a length of rope entwined in its bones...
Dective louis Kincaid dosent regret leaving the hometown that always treated him like an outcast.But nothing could have prepared him for the ominous reaction of the locals when he returns to investigate the decades-old slaying. With a veil of suspicion and terror decending over the streets of Black Pool, Kincaid is about to discover a trail of blood-chilling evil as he hunts a shadowy killer whose grisly work is far from over...
Dective louis Kincaid dosent regret leaving the hometown that always treated him like an outcast.But nothing could have prepared him for the ominous reaction of the locals when he returns to investigate the decades-old slaying. With a veil of suspicion and terror decending over the streets of Black Pool, Kincaid is about to discover a trail of blood-chilling evil as he hunts a shadowy killer whose grisly work is far from over...
GAIL L. (my2luvsemmyandmally) reviewed Dark of the Moon (Louis Kincaid, Bk 1) on + 758 more book reviews
Did not care for the storyline of this book !!!
Such a wonderful series! This is the first of the Louis Kincaid series and a must-read book in my opinion. Highly recommended.
She will hook you with her believable characters, dialogue, and page-turning suspense. And I promise, when you put down the book and look out the window, you won't believe where you are.
I really enjoyed this book. It's a great story with good characters and it really gives a sense of what it was like in the deep south.
This is the first in the series about Detective Louis Kincaid. He returns to his birthplace in rural Black Pool, Mississippi, where he becomes involved in investigating a murder from thirty years ago. He also must deal with his past and his identity.
Louis Kincaid in Black Pool, MS.....a lynched body, a town of quilty people, racism, murder......all rolled into one book. Very good. I couldn't put it down once I started it.
Thirty years ago a young man mysterious vanished from rural Black Pool Miss. Now his skeleton has been found in a murky swamp, length of rope entwined in his bones....dectective Louis Kidcaid doen't regret leaving his home town whick had always treated him as a outcast. But nothing could have prepared him for the omious reaction of the locals when he returns to investgate the decade old slaying. With the veil of suspesion of terror decending over the quite streets of Black Pool, Kincade is about to uncover a trail of blood ehilling evil as he huts a shadow killer who graisly work is far from over....
First Louis Kincaid story. Very good character development and plot. P. J. Parish (actually 2 sisters) off to a great start.
Ouis Kincade returns home to investigate a decades old slaying. Lots of Southern prejudice still going on.............
I like the character Louis Kincaid but I couldn't stay with this one, it moves so slow and introduces just too many people to keep up with and it's way too long mainly because it has pages and pages of nothing but just stretching it out.
On a cold and rain swept December morning, a hunter finds a human skeleton in the woods of Black Pool, Mississippi. For twenty, perhaps thirty years, these bones have lain in a shallow grave of dirt and leaves - until time and weather conspired to unearth them. Twenty-four years ago, Louis Kincaid was born to a black mother and white father who drifted out of their lives shortly after his son's birth. On leave from his job in Michigan, Louis has just started a temporary position with the Black Pool sheriff's department when the skeleton is discovered. But as he pursues his investigation, he quickly rediscovers what it means to be a black man in a white's man town, and what it means to be a half-white cop when he seeks help from Black Pool's African American community. The hostility he feels from both sides only escalates when Abigail Lillihouse, the passionate daughter of Black Pool's most prominent white citizen, falls hard for him. Most of all, Louis will find that he's stumbled onto a case that will tear Black Pool apart and spill secrets too ugly to bear. For there are those who have been waiting for years to tell the story of a long-ago night of terror - and others who will go to any length to silence them.
a great thriller
enjoyed the book..keeps you guessing
Good book, easy reading. Keeps your attention!
Tabatha L. (tabathalantz) reviewed Dark of the Moon (Louis Kincaid, Bk 1) on + 114 more book reviews
This turned out to be pretty good. At page 65 I could kind of guess what happened, but the author had quite a few twists and turns and it kept me hooked. Think I'm going to check out a few other books by this author.
