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    Nearer Home: A Nola Céspedes Mystery
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    Nearer Home: A Nola Céspedes Mystery

    Written by Joy Castro

    Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez

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    Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Céspedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. Instead, Nola finds herself at the scene of a crime when she discovers a dead body. Worse, Nola recognizes the victim: Judith Taffner, her former journalism professor at Tulane. Not convinced Dr. Taffner’s murder was the random work of a psychopath, Nola takes it upon herself to investigate. She discovers that Dr. Taffner was working on two explosive stories, both of which would shock even this notoriously corrupt city. And when an apparently related murder occurs in the middle of New Orleans’ packed Jazz Fest, Nola realizes it’s only a matter of time before she becomes a ruthless killer's next target.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJul 16, 2013
    ISBN9781624065521
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    Nearer Home: A Nola Céspedes Mystery
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    Joy Castro

    Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home; the story collection How Winter Began; the memoir The Truth Book; and the essay collection Island of Bones, which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology Family Trouble and served as the guest judge of CRAFT’s first Creative Nonfiction Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Salon, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Brevity, Afro-Hispanic Review, and elsewhere. A former writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, she is currently the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the first book in this series and I was disappointed with this one. In crime fiction today there are two mjor elements o the story, one dealing with the crime piece, the other with the relationship thing. Today you can't pick up a crime fiction novel without finding a number to pages devoted to how things are doing at home. Is the cat going to die? Will Bob chase Mary (romantically, not as in stalking, nor murder). This book overdoes the "R" thing: Nola with lover Bento, with ex-roomie Uri who is gay but maybe breaking up with bf Dr. Whomever, with the single mom of 3 trying to date again, with her three best buds one of whom is pregnant, another who suspects her husband of cheating, with her little Sister, with her Mom, with the the Senator's aide - remember this a crime fiction story..... What's left of this 275 page book is a murder involving a former pro of Nola's , the prof's student lover, and a shady U.S. Senator. All of which come together a bit too quickly, conveniently and unconvincingly. And c'mon, a hidden tape recorder? I thought that disppeared from crime fiction 20 years ago. I liked the NO background in book one, in this one it just seemed to be scenery. Doubt that I'll read #3.
    • 5/5
      loved the book from the first page! Even though it is book #2 in the series I had no trouble at all figuring out what was going on.I will still read the first book in this wonderful series “Hell or High Water”Nola Cespedes is a Crime reporter living in post Katrina New Orleans, working for the Times Picayune Newspaper and nursing physical and psychological hurts from years gone by.One morning as she is jogging in Audubon park she comes across a dead body, and not just any dead body but her former journalism professor at Tulane, Dr. Judith Taffner.Nola is not convinced that the dead woman was killed by a serial killer as the Police suspect and so she decides to do a little investigating on her own. She soon discovers Dr. Taffner was involved with two very serious stories that would shock even the NOPD and could have lead to her death.Needing more information she seeks the help of Dr. Taffner’s husband who she almost becomes involved with, complicating her investigation and the relationship with the man that she has been seeing. Nola is smart and spunky just the kind of gal I would like to meet and hang out with.I loved the characters, the story, the setting and the way the author writes, taking me right back to the New Orleans I love and where I once lived. A great story and easily one of my new favorite authors.