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 Artifacts - Mary Anna Evans
 Artifacts - Mary Anna Evans ... on the Florida coast, from escalating property taxes, Faye Longchamp sets out to uncover valuable historical artifacts on her estate, but instead of treasures from the past, she stumbles upon the body of a forty-year-old murder victim. Reissue.Newest Review: ... whereas we Brits prefer artefact - I will therefore use the British spelling unless referring to the title of the book. I ... more ... immediately liked Faye Longchamp as a character. Of mixed blood, she has never quite fitted in anywhere - even in twenty-first century Florida, blacks and whites tend to keep to themselves and there is no room for Faye. As such, she has grown up into a very independent woman who is reliant on her own company except for a very select few. Despite this, her pride in her family's history is very apparent and her determination to keep her ancestral home is really touching, even if it involves the illegal finding of artefac...more |
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Artifacts - Mary Anna Evans: Artifacts or artefacts? (892 words)
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Faye Longchamp is lucky in one sense; she has a beautiful ancestral home on an island off the Florida coast that was passed down to her from her great-great-grandmother Cally, a former slave. The only problems is that she can't afford its upkeep and is in danger of losing it to property developers. Already she is forced to eke out her existence by 'pothunting' - illegally searching for artefacts that she can sell to collectors. It is through pothunting that she finds the shattered skull of a woman who has clearly been in the earth for some years. Research shows that it is the missing body of a young girl who went missing forty years ago. But if Faye tells the police, her ... Read the complete review
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