False Dandelions
Subtitle: A Contemporary Southern Noir Fiction
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: August 10, 2012
Place of publication: Buffalo, New York USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781478273721
Description: Set in rural Virginia, ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is a contemporary Southern crime fiction novel filled with romance, small town secrets, broken dreams and murder as locals from Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, including a young disabled Iraq war veteran, stop a misguided band of Washington, DC criminals from setting up shop in their quiet town. When Lamar returned home from Iraq they gave him a hero’s welcome but he actually never felt like a true hero until he pulled off his greatest mission ever. A mission that will make this disabled vet a local legend, and a mission that will literally blow you away. Jesse is a rising star but when his mother’s body was found in the murky waters of the Rappahannock, he trades his prized guitar for a shotgun. Ever since Turtle was little, he was always somebody’s errand boy. Now, twenty years later, he decides to break the mold and that is just the beginning of many mistakes Turtle will make. Randolph Randy Camp’s ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is about the lives and dreams of underdogs. When you’re stuck in a nowhere place, physically or mentally, you dream of leaving. When you’ve been a nobody and strive to become somebody, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t. Once again, this prolific award-winning writer paints a straight forward picture of contemporary Southern life and reminds us that, regardless of your income or race, there’s a touch of Jesse in all of us and there’s a little Turtle in all of us.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Street Dogs; title: Chapter 2. Welcome To The Country; title: Chapter 3. Dandelion Wine; title: Chapter 4. Lamar; title: Chapter 5. Turtlenopoly Baby!; title: Chapter 6. Serv City; title: Chapter 7. Doing Laundry; title: Chapter 8. Blue Nova; title: Chapter 9. Knock n’ Walk; title: Chapter 10. White This Morning; title: Chapter 11. ’65 Mustang; title: Chapter 12. Bad Petals; title: Chapter 13. Do What We Gotta Do; title: Chapter 14. Patty’s Blood; title: Chapter 15. RO; title: Chapter 16. Patty’s Body; title: Chapter 17. The Bus; title: Chapter 18. Changin’ Face