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*** Winner of 2018 New York City Big Book Award in Mystery
*** Winner of "Distinguished Favorite" in Mystery in 2018 Independent Press Awards
*** Honorable Mention in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
*** 5-Star Review from Readers' Favorite
The mayor of the north Georgia town of Witherston and a prominent attorney are being blackmailed by a mysterious Donna Dam, who threatens to expose their shameful activities of forty years ago if the two men do not take a paternity test and if Mayor Rather does not withdraw his proposal to build a dam.
This tale of blackmail and murder in the present involves interracial rape and pregnancy in the past, in 1977 and in 1828, when intercourse between Cherokees and whites was considered an abomination in the racist South. DNA ancestry tests disclose unlikely kinships.
Dam Witherston is Betty Jean Craige's third Witherston murder mystery published by Black Opal Books. Downstream and Fairfield's Auction appeared in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
Click here for a sneak peek at Dam Witherston.
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*** Winner of 2018 New York City Big Book Award in Mystery
*** Winner of "Distinguished Favorite" in Mystery in 2018 Independent Press Awards
*** Honorable Mention in the 2017 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
*** 5-Star Review from Readers' Favorite
The mayor of the north Georgia town of Witherston and a prominent attorney are being blackmailed by a mysterious Donna Dam, who threatens to expose their shameful activities of forty years ago if the two men do not take a paternity test and if Mayor Rather does not withdraw his proposal to build a dam.
This tale of blackmail and murder in the present involves interracial rape and pregnancy in the past, in 1977 and in 1828, when intercourse between Cherokees and whites was considered an abomination in the racist South. DNA ancestry tests disclose unlikely kinships.
Dam Witherston is Betty Jean Craige's third Witherston murder mystery published by Black Opal Books. Downstream and Fairfield's Auction appeared in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
Click here for a sneak peek at Dam Witherston.
