Tracy Dunham’s acclaimed debut Wishful Sinful introduced us to Tal Jefferson—an attorney who fled the big city in disgrace after losing a headline-making case. Now, in the second of this evocative series, Tal must confront the racism simmering beneath the surface of her hometown to solve a vicious murder. Coming back to South Carolina was the best thing Tal Jefferson ever did. Even though she’s still haunted by the ghosts of her past, she’s finally given up the booze and started letting the tranquility of her hometown work its way through her veins. But her life is thrust back into turmoil when she and a high school acquaintance make a gruesome discovery in the Wynnton River. A man has been murdered—and soon, he is identified as the estranged husband of Tal’s secretary, June Atkins. It isn’t long before June is implicated in the crime, and simmering racial tensions rise to the surface in this seemingly peaceful hamlet. Now, in a town full of distrust and self-delusion, Tal must clear June’s name, and save them both from a murderer who’ll do anything to save himself.
Western: Leland Moses, U.S. Marshal out of Ft. Smith, heads deep into Indian Territory to bring back his man. Only this time, the search is personal. A former slave himself, Moses is chasing the man behind a slave ring selling captive Indian women and children into involuntary servitude in Mexico. Leland Moses always gets his man, but this time, he almost loses his life.
“Tracy Tynan uses the universal medium of clothing to tell the highly specific story of her bohemian British upbringing, and she does so with wit, candor, and yes—style” (Lena Dunham). Tracy Peacock Tynan grew up in London in the 1950’s and 60s, privy to her parents’ glamorous parties and famous friends—Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Orson Welles. Cecil Beaton and Katharine Hepburn were her godparents. These stylish showbiz people were role models for Tracy, who became a clotheshorse at a young age. Tracy’s father, Kenneth Tynan, was a powerful theater critic and writer for the Evening Standard, The Observer, and The New Yorker. Her mother was Elaine Dundy, a successful novelist and biographer, whose works have recently been revived by The New York Review of Books. Both of Tracy’s parents, particularly her father, were known as much for what they wore as what they wrote. In her “moving, candid, and often hilarious” memoir (Wall Street Journal), Tracy recalls her father’s dandy attire and her mother’s Pucci dresses, as well as her parents’ rancorous marriage and divorce, her father’s prodigious talents and celebrity lifestyle, and her mother’s lifelong struggle with addiction. She tackles issues big and small—relationships, marriage, children, stepchildren, blended families, her parent’s decline and deaths, and her work as a costume designer—with humor, insight, and with the special joy that can only come from finding the perfect outfit. “A powerful concoction of famous names, famous fashions, and famous psychiatric disorders…Wear and Tear is just the thing for a weekend in the Hamptons” (New York Post).
Along with her half-Comanche husband, Johnny Two Hats, the white woman born Elizabeth McFarland, named Mythmaker by the Kiowa, sets out to find her adopted Indian family. The decimation of the buffalo is complete, and the tribes are reduced to farming arid land on the reservation. Instead of finding a home with their People, Mythmaker and Johnny Two Hats discover their tribes are starving and many friends are dead. As Mythmaker searches for a way out, Johnny is drawn to a Kiowa prophet who promises the return of the buffalo. Skeptical and at odds with her husband over their future, Mythmaker must make a choice.
John Macgruder, a former gunman turned rancher, teams up with Morgan Wilson, a feisty young woman, to foil the plot of an outlaw gang to destroy the local ranchers' cattle drive
Tracy Dunham’s acclaimed debut Wishful Sinful introduced us to Tal Jefferson—an attorney who fled the big city in disgrace after losing a headline-making case. Now, in the second of this evocative series, Tal must confront the racism simmering beneath the surface of her hometown to solve a vicious murder. Coming back to South Carolina was the best thing Tal Jefferson ever did. Even though she’s still haunted by the ghosts of her past, she’s finally given up the booze and started letting the tranquility of her hometown work its way through her veins. But her life is thrust back into turmoil when she and a high school acquaintance make a gruesome discovery in the Wynnton River. A man has been murdered—and soon, he is identified as the estranged husband of Tal’s secretary, June Atkins. It isn’t long before June is implicated in the crime, and simmering racial tensions rise to the surface in this seemingly peaceful hamlet. Now, in a town full of distrust and self-delusion, Tal must clear June’s name, and save them both from a murderer who’ll do anything to save himself.
Louis Tracy (1863-1928) was a British journalist and a prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser (at times with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the 20th century).
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