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Originally Posted by HarryT
Does nobody want to nominate a mystery that is not a crime? The "mystery" category is certainly not limited to just crime novels!
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OK, here's one. For my third and final vote, I nominate the novel
White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by MR member Paul Clayton. I read it earlier this year and it is
excellent! It's a bit long, but the ending is one of those that will stay with you a long time, and the speculation about the colonist's true fate should surely engender a lively discussion.
It's available at
Smashwords,
Amazon, and other stores.
From Publishers Weekly:
White Seed…hews closely to the record of Sir Walter Raleigh's second doomed attempt to plant the British flag in Virginia… The depiction of the colony's physical and moral disintegration between 1587 and 1590 -- as drunken, cannibalistic soldiers mutiny and brutalize the settlers they were meant to protect, and as colonists confront disease, starvation and madness -- evokes a harrowing sense of human fallibility. Readers…will find this saga, which…soon achieves page-turner velocity, to be both a dandy diversion and an entertaining education.
Publisher's Weekly isn't exaggerating about that page-turner velocity. The closer you get to the climax, the more of an emotional roller-coaster the book becomes. It starts slow, but ends at a breakneck thrill-ride speed.