![]() And Caren keeps uncovering things she will wish she didn’t know. Now she has police on site, an investigation in progress, and a member of staff no one can track down. Not long afterwards, he calls her to say it’s something else. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she asks the gardener to tidy it up. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that has been dug up by the fence bordering the sugar cane fields. ![]() Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in Louisiana that she has managed for four years. A plantation owned for generations by a rich family. The American South in the twenty-first century. ![]() What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. ![]()
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