Plunder /
Mary Anna Evans.
- [Large print edition].
- ii, 454 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
- large print (16 point)
- A Faye Longchamp mystery. .
- Evans, Mary Anna. Faye Longchamp mystery. .
Originally published in standard format by: Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2012. Copyright page from the original book.
Time is not on Faye Longchamp's side. She and her husband 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. It isn't helping that an injured babysitter has left Faye to work with a toddler underfoot. An adolescent girl is drawn to Faye, perhaps because she idolizes the confident archaeologist. Young Amande is bright and curious, and a poverty-stricken life on a houseboat with an eccentric grandmother doesn't look like a good to get the education Amande deserves. When the girl's grandmother and her no-account uncle are murdered, her prospects worsen. With only two known relatives-neither of them much more respectable than the dead uncle-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.
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Longchamp, Faye (Fictitious character)--Fiction. Mantooth, Joe Wolf (Fictitious character)--Fiction. Women archaeologists--Fiction. Murder--Investigation--Fiction. BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010--Fiction. Oil spills--Environmental aspects--Gulf States--Fiction. Teenage girls--Fiction. Houseboats--Fiction. Inheritance and succession--Fiction.