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Floodgates (A Faye Longchamp Mystery) (Library Edition)

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This was my third book of Mary Evans that I have read and my favorite. Hope she keeps writing

Archeologist Faye Longchamp leads a dig of a plantation adjoined to the Battle of New Orleans locale. During clean-up by the students of the damage Katrina caused to the famous battlefield and the adjacent plantation, a corpse is found. The person would have been considered an unfortunate victim of the Hurricane except for a dumbbell on top of the pelvis.

The police ask Faye and her fiancé Joe Wolf Mantooth to help them with the homicide investigation. The victim is identified as archeologist Shelly Broussard who worked with rescue teams following Katrina. Faye and Joe find clues in a local nonfiction account of the hurricane's devastation and in a nineteenth century military engineer's journal as the pair begins to unravel a clever homicide almost buried by the storm of the century.

The latest Faye Longchamp archeological mystery (see FINDINGS, ARTIFACTS, and RELICS) is an engaging whodunit that ties a historical journal to a modern day murder. The story line is character driven by the lead couple and a super support cast. However, the investigation feels somewhat emaciated though in fairness it is fun to read. Fans of the series will enjoy Faye's newest escapades.

Harriet Klausner

Mary Anna Evans' "Floodgates" takes to reader to post-Katrina New Orleans and provides an entertaining look at the city, the people, the food, the coffee, and the mood of the location. Murder is never pretty and the murder in this book is no exception. Come revisit the agony of the flood, the attempts to keep Mighty Mississippi at bay, and the extent to which some folks will go to keep their secrets. This is a fun read.

I thoroughly enjoyed Faye's escapades in New Orleans since it is our neighbor. It helped to have a little romance going, too.