Title: The cutting season
Description: When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
Subjects: Fiction, Murder, Investigation, Plantations, Migrant labor, Fiction, suspense, Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, crime, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Homicide
Places: Louisiana