Cynthia Harper and J W Dunn"s The Limoges Vase selected as Best Mystery Book of 2006 by NewBookReviews.org
- MADILL, OK, January 29, 2007 - New Book Reviews announced the 2006 winners in the NBR,org"s 2006 Spotlight Best Book of the Year Awardthia Harper and J W Dunn"s The Limoges Vase selected as the best mystery book of 2006 by New Book Reviews editors and reader base. Each year NBR.org selects from their Spotlight Book of the Week Winners, the best mystery book of the year. New Book Reviews criteria for Book of the Year Awards are: writing style and professionalism, marketability, subject interest, reader"s preference, and editor"s preference
The Limoges Vase - Cynthia Harper & J W Dunn - ISBN 1-4241-1736-4, Publish America
Synopsis: Many are pursued and haunted by their past, but the Trosclairs and Labouches of Belleterre Parish, Louisiana are destroyed or redeemed by the historical past. In November 1905, family matriarch, Felicit Trosclair, dies bitterly cursing Ramon Labouche and his seed. In present day Belleterre Parish, Jolie Trosclair completes law school and returns home. She is romantically pursued by Danny Labouche, the only son of the wealthiest man in Belleterre Parish. After they marry, their relationship begins to crumble as Danny becomes cold and abusive. When she has an antique Limoges vase that is a family heirloom authenticated, Jolie sets in motion a process that unearths her aristocratic ancestry, as well as the pedigree of violence and deceit that drives Danny Labouche and his father inexorably to their destruction.
NewBookReviews Review:
Cynthia Harper and J W Dunn"s fictional collaboration resulting in The Limoges Vase is a colorful and poignantly accurate portrait of the Antebellum South, both historically and modern day. Accurately describing the structured society, unique to the deep south, divided into the very rich, powerful families, and everyone else. First and foremost this is a love story, filled with glimpses of life on a early plantation, the Civil War, and General Butler"s controversial occupation of New Orleans, and the graft that was plentiful both then and now. Most readers will find it difficult to remember that this, is indeed, a work of fiction. This tale is about the people, the times and the history of two families and a long held family keepsake, The Limoges Vase . The Limoges Vase is one of those wonderful books that allows you escape into a familiar world and to experience the lives, danger, love, the pain, hope, joy, and survival, in the comfort of the gifted narration on its pages. This is a journey that should be taken by any reader partial to history and the romantic phenomenon known as the Deep South. Gifted Narration! Tense, Full of suspense, romance and conspiracy!
Maria Wilson Editor3(at)newbookreviews.org
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