Jackson Park

Name: Jackson Park
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Charlotte Carter
ISBN: 9781436112284

Author: Charlotte Carter

Series: Cook County Mysteries #1

Narrator: Lizzie Cooper Davis

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/27/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Charlotte Carter, acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mysteries, sets her dazzling new series amidst the social and racial tumult of late 1960s Chicago. Cassandra, grandniece to Woodson and Ivy Lisle, is a college student caught up in the highly charged atmosphere of the days following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. When the granddaughter of Woodson and Ivy's friends goes missing, Cassandra is sucked into a dangerous mystery that threatens to expose long-buried secrets and jeopardize the life of anyone who asks too many questions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bernard on January 13, 2011

In general, I'm looking for the sense of setting in a novel, both in time and place. This novel, set in Chicago in April 1968 (just following Dr. King's murder and the riots that followed it), was clearly set in Chicago (the geography of the streets ran true), but I didn't really get a sense of plac......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on December 12, 2008

This book provided insight into a time and culture that outsiders could never fully understand. It takes place in the 1950's, in Chicago's roughest crime neighborhoods and traces the lives of struggling African American families. I truly enjoyed this book...it was definitely an eye-opener about this......more

Goodreads review by Heather on August 28, 2016

Interesting story about black college student in Chicago in 1960s, a neighborhood murder and intersection with the black panthers.......more