----- Original Message ----- From: "James Reasoner" <
james53@flash.net>
> Hi, Al. Whittington's books as Ashley Carter aren't
really romance
novels.
> Most of them belong to the now-vanished genre known
as plantation novels
and
> are set in the pre-Civil War American South. Lots of
violence and
general,
> all-around sleaziness. Whittington is such a solid
storyteller that I
> enjoyed the books, though they're nowhere near as
good as his mysteries
and
> suspense novels.
I didn't know that, James. You've made them sound much more
intriguing. Never having read a plantation novel, I think I
owe it to myself to try at least one. I'll pick one up next
time I see one.
Al Guthrie
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