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    Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
    Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
    Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
    Audiobook9 hours

    Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

    Written by Barbara Neely

    Narrated by Lisa Renee Pitts

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    About this audiobook

    The second, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author Barbara Neely.

    When Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and judgmental, acquiring more attitude than education. So when she and her kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive resort in Maine for wealthy blacks, Blanche jumps at the chance to see how the other half lives and maybe stop her kids turning into people she doesn't want to know. When one of the guests kills himself, and another is electrocuted in her bathtub, Blanche becomes an accidental detective once again, using her sharp wit and keen social insight to peel back some disturbing color and class distinctions within the black community that may have driven someone to murder.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9781977340061
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    • 5/5
      Really insightful story into colourism wrapped in a very good mystery. Blanche is one feisty lady and I love her.
    • 5/5
      I LOVE Barbara Neely's Blanch series!!! I love the narrator of the series also. This should be required reading in schools. She explains in depth the history and feelings of black people living in America. I'm looking forward to more books of Blanche Whites' life.
    • 3/5
      It was a good read. I was more entertained by it than I was by the first installment.
    • 4/5
      Blanche is a magnificently drawn character.
    • 3/5
      Blanche White, maid/cook extraordinaire, goes to Maine to spend some time with her kids at an elegant African-American resort owned and visited by old-money African-American families. A woman whom no one liked has recently died and her death puts a chain of events in motion that endangers Blanche. The mystery is secondary to the discussion about African-American attitudes about class and skin color. I like Blanche; she's warm, volatile and interesting.