Isolation, Mary Anna Evans
Isolation, Mary Anna Evans
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Isolation
A Faye Longchamp Mystery

Author: Mary Anna Evans

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2015

Synopsis

Archaeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth has dug herself a deep hole, and she can’t make her way out of it. As she struggles to recover from a shattering personal loss, she sees that everyone she loves is trying to reach out to her. If only she could reach back. Instead she’s out digging holes all over her home, the Florida island of Joyeuse.In their old plantation home, Joe Wolf Mantooth is surrounded by family—Faye, the wife he loves; their toddler son he adores; and his father, who hasn’t gotten around to telling Joe how long he’s been out of prison or how he got there—yet Joe has never felt so helpless or alone.Then a close friend at the local marina is brutally murdered, the first in a string of crimes against women that rocks Micco County. Joe, desperate to help Faye, realizes she is in danger from both her inner demons and someone who has breached the island’s isolation. Local law and environmental officials say they want to help, but to Faye and Joe they feel more like invaders. A struggling Faye reaches back over a century into her family’s history for clues. And all the while, danger snakes further into their lives, threatening the people they love, their cherished home, even the very ground—some of it poisoned—beneath their feet.

About Mary Anna Evans

Mary Anna Evans 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.

About Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on February 04, 2018

Confession, I wasn't sure I would finish this book. Actually, when I stopped listening to the audio version of the book had I decided to not finish it. The blurb made the book sound very intriguing, but I had a hard time getting into the story so I decided to put it aside. Then, I got an eARC of Und......more

Goodreads review by Tara on April 02, 2015

I received this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This was my first book by this author, and it is the next in series of about 8 or 9...so anyone that knows me knows I HAVE to go back and read the rest. I cant stand to start at the end...lol...So, this one was good enough and kep......more

Goodreads review by Sue on April 26, 2015

Isolation is the 9th in Evans' Faye Longchamp series (of which I've read all but 2, I believe). Faye is a strong woman, living on an island off the Florida coast that is the heritage of her freed-slave ancestor. There is a large back story here, revealed through the novels, Faye's excavations and pr......more

Goodreads review by Carol on February 13, 2017

This was the ninth book in the Faye Longchamp series. I thoroughly enjoy Faye and her family, I especially like hearing about her work and it seemed like there was less of that in this one. The book started out slowly as Faye was very depressed with the loss of her baby, it seemed like she and Joe m......more

Goodreads review by Lelia on June 24, 2016

There are some authors I know I can always count on to give me a good story, to take me away for just a few hours from the trials and tribulations of real life. They are the ones I always go back to when I feel the need for some familiarity, sort of like the old friend you haven't seen in a while bu......more

Quotes

“Archeologist Faye Longchamp-Mantooth entertains an array of visitors at her home on Joyeuse Island, some more welcome than others, in Evans’s meaty ninth mystery set on Florida’s Gulf coast…Evans skillfully uses excerpts from the fictional oral history of Cally Stanton, recorded by the Federal Writers’ Project in 1935, to dramatize the past.” Publishers Weekly

“Well-drawn characters and setting, and historical and archaeological detail, add to the absorbing story.” Booklist

“A mystery from the past provides just the therapy a grieving mother needs…A worthwhile addition to Faye’s long-running series that weaves history, mystery, and psychology into a satisfying tale of greed and passion.” Kirkus Reviews

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