I think it's the class part that gets lots of non-Black people, at least from what audience say and what I get in fan mail. I think Blanche appeals to lot of folks in those positions, have been or who have relatives and friends who are because Blanche does the best you can in that kind of position and keep your dignity. She gets her own back, doesn't let people mess with her and she finds ways to get justice. In the latest novel, Blanche returns to Farleigh, N.C. with a reunion with he best friend. Blanche attracts a new romantic interest but while in Farleigh encounters the man who raped her eight years earlier.
Blanche attempts to get even.
Meanwhile a young girl is murdered and her antagonist is a prime suspect which sets Blanche off on a mission to try to discover clues linking him to the murder. Neely has a knack for poking fun at the absurdities of race and class in America as seen through the eyes of Blanche. All of the books have been drafted at least five times and it's probably the third draft before the humor kicks in. I laugh a lot when I write the books. I didn't know it was coming.