Artifacts - (Faye Longchamp) by Mary Anna Evans (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Faye Longchamp is doing something she hates, finding and selling artifacts. But she's doing it to save something she loves. Joyeuse, the plantation manor held by the women in her family ever since her great-great-grandmother inherited it. Faye makes a little money on the legitimate dig on a nearby island until that work is interrupted by the murder of two young members of the crew. Then bones of a much older murder are uncovered, and clues lead Faye to suspect an old friend, a long-time business partner, and a new love interest.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>With an introduction by Mary Anna Evans.</b></p> <p>Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast. No one knows how Faye's great-great-grandmother Cally, a newly freed slave barely out of her teens, came to own Joyeuse in the aftermath of the Civil War. No one knows how her descendants hung onto it through Reconstruction, world wars, the Depression, and Jim Crow, but Faye has inherited the island plantation--and the family tenacity. When the property taxes rise beyond her means, she sets out to save Joyeuse by digging for artifacts on her property and the surrounding National Wildlife Refuge and selling them on the black market. A tiny bit of that dead glory would pay a year's taxes. A big valuable chunk of the past would save her home forever. But instead of potsherds and arrowheads, she uncovers a woman's shattered skull, a Jackie Kennedy-style earring nestled against its bony cheek. Faye is torn. If she reports the forty-year-old murder, she'll reveal her illegal livelihood, thus risking jail and the loss of Joyeuse. She doesn't intend to let that happen, so she probes into the dead woman's history, unaware that the past is rushing up on her like a hurricane across deceptively calm Gulf waters...</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A haunting, atmospheric story. - <strong><em>P.J. Parrish, New York Times bestselling author</em></strong><br><br>First-novelist Evans introduces a strong female sleuth in this extremely promising debut, and she makes excellent use of her archaeological subject matter, weaving past and present together in a multilayered, compelling plot. - <strong><em>Booklist</em></strong><br><br>It's always fun to discover a new Florida voice, especially one who can bring to life the rich texture--the sand, the sea, the moss-draped live oaks, the seedy fishing shacks, the salted boat culture--of the state's coast...the menace and the history are resolved in a hurricane of a finale. - <strong><em>Tampa Tribune</em></strong><br><br>The shifting little isles along the Florida Panhandle--hurricane-wracked bits of land filled with plenty of human history--serve as the effective backdrop for Evans' debut, a tale of greed, archeology, romance and murder. - <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Mary Anna Evans</strong> is the author of the Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries, which have received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Mississippi Author Award, and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals. She is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches fiction and nonfiction writing.</p><p>Check out her website, enewsletter, facebook author page, and twitter.</p><p><strong>Winner of the 2018 Sisters in Crime (SinC) Academic Research Grant</strong></p>
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