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Findings (Faye Longchamp)

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Archaeologist Faye Longchamp and her housemate Joe Wolf Mantooth are restoring a plantation house while excavating a site to include the Turkey Foot Hotel on Joyeuse Island, Florida, where her family once lived.. Faye uses the basement laboratory of Douglass Everett to catalogue and store her findings. So far the top item is a stunning emerald.

However, Douglass's wife finds her spouse dying as Faye's FINDINGS lie nearby shattered and her notes gone. Faye is stunned to hear this but not as much as the shocker that her beloved mentor died. Grieving, but a professional just like Douglass would expected of her, Faye investigates the history of the emerald and more important to her who murdered Douglass. When a second murder occurs and an attempt on Faye's life fails, Joe Wolf vows to keep her safe while her Atlanta based legal friend Ross Donnelly asks her to relocate as his wife.

Faye Longchamp's fourth (see RELICS, EFFIGIES, and ARTIFACTS.) archaeological mystery is a terrific combining of Florida history with a whodunit and a bit of romance. The story line is fast-paced from the onset as Faye begins the arduous digging that she relishes. As always she makes the tale; in this case she must put aside her grief to honor her mentor as he would expect her to finish the excavation. Readers will appreciate her efforts as an amateur sleuth, a potential victim, and a professional archaeologist who relishes the past but mourns her loss while taking care of business.

Harriet Klausner

i went to high school with this wonderful author. She is just as nice as her character Faye. I love all her books because the history she incorporates.Looking forward to new ones.!!

I just finished this fourth book in the series and loved every minute of it. This is one of the best archaelogical mystery series I've read and would compare favorably with Beverly Connor's Diane Fallon and Lindsay Chamberlain series. The excerpts of old letters and diaries are fascinating. Faye's relationships with Joe. her housemate, and her other friends and neighbors lends so much to this series. (Those of you who haven't been to the sugar white beaches of the Florida Panhandle have really missed a wonderful area!)

Mary Anna Evans' FINDINGS tells of Faye Longchamp, restoring the family plantation in Florida and doing archaeological work for pay at the same time. When thieves break into the home of her mentor and kill him, ignoring his valuables, Fay finds herself on a puzzling, dangerous search for the truth.

I recently discovered this author and read all four of the books. Faye Longchamp is a relentless sleuth and I like that! The story was well written and held my interest until the very last page. Can't wait to see where Joe and Faye go from here!

Findings is Ms. Evans fourth book in her series about Faye Longcham an archeologist and Joe Wolf Mantooth her friend side kick and sometimes assistant. In this episode we go back to Faye's ancestral home off the coast of Florida to her Island Joyeuse where she uncovers an artifact from the Civil War era which of course leads to death and destruction and the ever present question 'who done it'. Well the journey to that outcome will leave you on the edge of your seat for the whole trip, and the outcome, well you'll have to read it yourself but you won't be disappointed.

I started with the first (Artifacts) in the series because I wanted to try a new author. I read two (Relics) and three (Effigies) because I wanted to give her (the author) the benefit of the doubt. I just finished reading the fourth one. I won't be reading the fifth. Evans is so stuck on the fact that her heroine is not "pure white". I just don't get it.

Seventy-five pages and I cannot make myself read further.

Not much of a review but what can I say? I'll give it one good point. It's cheaper than Ambien. Five pages of this book will put you in a coma.