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Beauty in the Blood

A Novel

Charlotte Carter

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Vintage Books
11 February 2025
A curse rolls out over centuries, murky and unknowable as swamp waters, shaping and destroying lives.

""Carter delivers. . . .

A

fusion of detective fiction and horror that is impossible to look away from."" -The New York Times Book Review

A curse rolls out over centuries, murky and unknowable as swamp waters, shaping and destroying lives.

""Carter delivers. . . .

A

fusion of detective fiction and horror that is impossible to look away from."" -The New York Times Book Review

Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced- and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither understand nor control is manipulating her memory and driving her to unexplained acts of violence and destruction. At the same time, Sarah is swept up in a highly charged relationship with a work colleague that portends a danger of its own. As she moves through her privileged life in New York, Sarah comes to learn how her past-her haunted history-is intertwined with America's.

Yvonne Howard was born into the working class. Now, after years as a prison guard, she has reinvented herself. Her passion for cooking has landed her a position at a trendy soul food restaurant, and she is looking forward to a glamorous career. Then an ex-inmate named Bitty appears, demanding Yvonne's help investigating her brother's shocking death. Before long, Bitty too is dead, and Yvonne is pulled back into a world of ugly violence. Smart but unschooled, Yvonne finds herself in the unlikely role of detective- it is she who must unravel the dark and blood-soaked history that not only doomed Bitty and her brother, but also determined beautiful Sarah Toomey's fate.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   311g
ISBN:   9780593467282
ISBN 10:   0593467280
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

CHARLOTTE CARTER is the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery series. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of American and British anthologies. Charlotte Carter has lived in the American Midwest, North Africa, and France. She currently resides in New York City.

Reviews for Beauty in the Blood: A Novel

""Beauty in the Blood begins in the last year of the Civil War, as blacks flee ruined plantations, murderous Confederates, and treacherous Unionists. It takes us to New York in the year 2000, where successful black women find their lives threatened with a violence that implicates them in America’s harshest racial crimes. None of us is exempt from history’s torments, and none of those torments is simple. This is a riveting and wise novel."" —Margo Jefferson, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Negroland and Constructing a Nervous System


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