Plunder will be available nationwide on March 6, 2012

The latest mystery by award-winning novelist Mary Anna Evans, Plunder, features archaeologist protagonist Faye Longchamp and her Native American husband Joe Mantooth. In advance reviews, Kirkus calls Plunder “delightfully erudite” and Publishers Weekly adds,
“the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico
provides the backdrop for Evans’s engaging, character-driven mystery.”
Time
is not on Faye Longchamp's side: she and her husband Joe, the founders
of a business that assesses archaeological sites, are working near the
mouth of the Mississippi, researching sites soon to be swamped by oil.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster has morphed Faye’s run-of-the-mill
contract job into a task that might swamp her fledgling company. It
isn't helping that an injured babysitter has left Faye to work with a
toddler underfoot.
A
sixteen-year-old girl who lives nearby is drawn to Faye. Amande is
bright and curious, and a poverty-stricken life on a houseboat with an
eccentric grandmother doesn't look like a good place to get the
education she deserves. But when the girl's grandmother and her
no-account uncle are murdered, Amande’s prospects worsen. With only two
known relatives—neither of them much more respectable than the dead
uncle—Amande seems destined for neglect or worse.
Drawn
into a family drama fueled by Louisiana’s unusual inheritance laws,
Faye and Joe soon find themselves among the people fighting hard for
Amande's pathetic inheritance: a raggedy houseboat, a few shares of
stock, and a hurricane-battered island that's not even inhabitable.
Pirate-era silver coins are found but disappear. A murderer is on the
loose. But why should Faye be surprised by such shady events, here in
these watery lands settled by the greatest pirates of them all? The oil
slick looms, and Louisiana is still being plundered after all these
years…
About the Author
Mary
Anna Evans is the author of the award-winning Faye Longchamp
mysteries. A licensed chemical engineer, Mary Anna turned to mystery
fiction after the birth of her third child, shifting her focus from
managing hazardous wastes to preparing balanced meals and plotting the
perfect murder. The recent recipient of the Mississippi Library
Association's Mississippi Author Award, Mary Anna has won the Florida
Historical Society's Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award, the
Benjamin Franklin Award, and a Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal. She is
also the author of Artifacts, Relics, Effigies, Findings, Floodgates and Strangers. A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Mary Anna lives in Florida.
Founded
in 1997, Poisoned Pen Press is an independent publisher specializing in
the highest quality mystery books. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona,
Poisoned Pen Press is one of the largest publishers of hardcover
mysteries in the world. Titles from Poisoned Pen Press are distributed
by Ingram Publisher Services, and are available through wholesalers such
as Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and Brodart, and directly from the
publisher. Visit the new Poisoned Pen Press author blog and Discover Mystery™ at: www.poisonedpenpress.com.
Members of the news media wishing to request additional information about author Mary Anna Evans or an advance review copy of Plunder are kindly asked to contact Maryglenn McCombs by phone – (615) 297-9875, or by email – maryglenn@maryglenn.com.
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