Undercurrents
A Faye Longchamp Mystery

Name: Undercurrents
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Mary Anna Evans
ISBN: 9781982542139

Author: Mary Anna Evans

Series: Faye Longchamp Mysteries #11

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 07/10/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, African American & Black Fiction, Indigenous, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

In Undercurrents, the eleventh Faye Longchamp Mystery, Faye has traveled to Memphis, a city steeped in music, poverty, history, and the smoky tang of barbecue. She’s there working alone to do an assessment of a site, welcome work for her small archaeological consulting firm.When Faye spies a child too young to be wandering along a creek alone, she follows the girl. A day later she uncovers a dying woman, buried alive near a spot where Kali might well be hiding. Nobody would blame Faye for running hard, but she can’t make herself leave Kali, the woman’s now-orphaned daughter, who might be in danger. She’s not welcomed by the people in Kali’s struggling community, nor by the police working the crime. Yet she stays, for Kali, and for the bereaved who need her to communicate their fears to a police department that they trust even less than they trust Faye.When they confide rumors of other women beaten to death by a man so obsessed with burial that he places fresh flowers in their cold hands, Faye begs the police to widen the investigation to seek a serial killer. They refuse. Faye’s gut is telling her that a monster is stalking Memphis, endangering the child she has come to love. If the police can’t catch him, then she will have no choice but to try to find him herself.

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

Original bio sent from Cassandra: Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin Klein’s Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as an Audie® Award nomination. As an actress and director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on April 15, 2018

This may be the best so far in an excellent series! In this episode, Faye has traveled to Memphis to work on a job commissioned by local government: she and her team are to clear unused city park land before it is developed for use as campgrounds and for other needs. Faye is hoping for evidence of a......more

Goodreads review by Amy on September 02, 2022

This one was a bit darker than other books in this series. There was not very much archeology, which I missed. However, I liked Kali and her family.......more

Goodreads review by Kathy Kathy Kathy on February 12, 2019

I have read the entire series. I appreciate how the author develops characters. They seem real to me, enough for me, in this book, to be annoyed at one of them for over-sharing on social media and texting, yet still feel that character to be one of us. Multidimensional. I also appreciate that socia......more

Goodreads review by Ashmita on March 21, 2018

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in for an honest review and here it is! The best thing about this book was its protagonist. I love female characters who are smart and strong and I felt as though Faye was a perfect protagonist for me. She wasn't a damsel in distress, she didn't need som......more

Goodreads review by Jane on June 23, 2018

This is a very good, well-written book, with a compelling mystery that makes it hard to put down. However, personally, I find the subject of that mystery disturbing: a serial killer who preys on young women. Instead of the historical element usually included in the series, the reader is forced into......more

Quotes

“Evans expertly juggles a host of likely suspects, all the while breathing life into the city of Memphis, from its tourist-filled center to its marginal neighborhoods and the spectacular wilderness of the state park.” Publishers Weekly