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Triple Cannonballing with fugitive Blanche, here to solve your murder mysteries and nose around until all your secrets are exposed.

Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1) by Barbara Neely

December 22, 2023 by narfna 8 Comments

This was published in 1992 so it should have SO MANY more ratings on Goodreads than it does. It was very good! Mystery/crime junkies, consider this your notice. A fun series is waiting for you. There are only four books in it, and this is the first. And if you have KU or Audible, it’s free! I highly enjoyed the audiobook experience, if you are an audiobook person. The book opens with Blanche—who I now love with all my heart—sitting in court waiting to hear […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: audiobooks, Barbara Neely, black author, Blanche On The Lam, Blanche White, crime, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, Suspense

narfna's CBR15 Review No:156 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: audiobooks, Barbara Neely, black author, Blanche On The Lam, Blanche White, crime, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, Suspense ·
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The Made

Blanche On The Lam by Barbara Neely

December 10, 2023 by Jake Leave a Comment

There’s a sort of condescension glommed onto the (mostly white) marketers of Black creatives which holds that some sort of fictional media by them with themes of racial prejudice blocking the hero’s path makes it the next Get Out. Get Out‘s a great movie that deserves its laudations but Black writers have been using genres to address the racism they feel for a long time. Barbara Neely does that here. Strip it of its context and it’s a cozy mystery: a maid solving a small […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Barbara Neely, Blanche On The Lam, Blanche White, mystery, North Carolina

Jake's CBR15 Review No:170 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Barbara Neely, Blanche On The Lam, Blanche White, mystery, North Carolina ·
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