3/15/2024 0 Comments Dark darker yet darker pianoWith her reluctant daughter-who has troubles of her own-in tow, Glory launches a shadow investigation into Lafayette’s oil tycoons, church gossips, a rumored voodoo priestess, nosey neighbors, and longtime ne'er-do wells.Īs a Black woman of a certain age who grew up in a segregated Louisiana, Glory is used to being minimized and overlooked. When police declare the mysterious death a suicide, Glory is convinced that there must be more to the story. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend-a nun beloved by the community-has been found dead in her apartment. It’s a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club. The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. It is through each character that we are given a new perspective to the seismic shifts that shook the world in nineteenth-century Europe. Now, with this electrifying addition to the Kingsbridge series we are plunged into the battlefield between compassion and greed, love and hate, progress and tradition. Over thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge, England, where progress clashes with tradition, class struggles push into every part of society, and war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond.
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