Mark de Castrique. (2013). A Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

Mark de Castrique. 2013. A Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery. Blackstone Publishing.

Mark de Castrique, A Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery. Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

Mark de Castrique. A Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

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     Mark de Castrique is the author of the Washington, DC, political thriller, The 13th Target, and author of the critically acclaimed Barry Clayton and Sam Blackman mystery series, both set in the mountains of his native North Carolina, and as well as mysteries for young adults. He is a veteran of the television and film production industry and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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In Asheville, North Carolina, the Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality: no clients. Sam Blackman finds inactivity intolerable, so when partner Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt on the site of a historic freed-slave commune called the Kingdom of the Happy Land, Sam reluctantly agrees. When he stumbles across a skeleton, his adventure mushrooms into a case of murder. But it isn't his case—he has no client—and the local authorities tell him to butt out.

Then Marsha Montgomery comes to the office asking Sam and Nakayla to investigate a burglary at her mother's home. In 1967 someone stole a rifle and a photograph of Marsha's mother, grandmother, and great grandmother taken in 1932 by renowned photographer Doris Ulmann. Marsha's visit is no coincidence: the photograph was taken at the Kingdom of the Happy Land. Sam's being played, but why?

When Marsha's eighty-five-year-old mother Lucille is arrested for murder, Sam has his answer and his case. Is the skeleton that of Jimmy Lang—Lucille's lover and Marsha's white father—who disappeared in 1967? Jimmy's brother says no; Jimmy left to seek his fortune after Lucille rejected his marriage proposal. But others stood to gain from Jimmy's disappearance.

A veil of betrayal and deceit hides a killer desperate to protect a dark secret, and no one—not even Sam—is safe from the deadly consequences.

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   • source: Library Journal (starred review) on Blackman's Coffin
   • content: "Known for his effortless storytelling, de Castrique once again delivers a compelling tale blending fact and fiction, this one involving racial tension, the aftermath of war, and the authentication of manuscripts."
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     October 7, 2013
     De Castrique's well-crafted fourth mystery (after 2011's The Sandburg Connection) featuring Ashville, N.C., PI Sam Blackman and partner/lover Nakayla Robertson explores America's past history of racial segregation. Sam, on a mushroom hunt with members of the Blue Ridge Mushroom Club, stumbles into a rotten log and discovers a skeleton inside. Called to the scene, Henderson County Deputy Sidney Overcash finds a rifle slug nearby. Meanwhile, a new client, Marsha Montgomery, hires Sam and Nakayla to investigate a very cold case—the 1967 theft of a photograph of the Kingdom of the Happy Land, a 19th-century community of former slaves, founded on the site where the skeleton was found. The mystery proves to involve the interracial, and then illegal, romance between Martha's mother, Lucille Montgomery, and the long-missing Jimmy Lang. This solid whodunit offers readers a glimpse into a curious chapter of cultural history. Agent: Linda Allen, Linda Allen Literary Agency.

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   • content: William Dufris comfortably portrays the many fascinating characters in the fourth Sam Blackman mystery, set in the 1960s. In Asheville, North Carolina, the Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency has no clients, and inactivity makes Sam fidgety. Then Marsha Montgomery asks Sam and his partner to investigate a burglary at her mother's home. Someone stole a rifle and a photograph of Marsha's mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, taken in 1932 by renowned photographer Doris Ulmann. Dufris uses tone, volume, and pacing to dramatize characters' emotional issues as well as racial and marital tensions. A veil of deceit hides a desperate killer's need to protect a family secret. Listeners will be intrigued by Sam's discoveries as the plot unwinds. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

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