Glory Daze
A Glory Broussard Mystery
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- 11,99 $US
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"Glory Broussard's talents and foibles as a human and a crime-solver on full display in Arceneaux’s sublime Glory Daze."––Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review, "Best Mystery Novels of the Year"
In the highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning Glory Be, Glory Broussard finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of her ex-husband's death . . . with an unlikely ally at her side.
After her life was turned upside down by solving the murder of her best friend, Sister Amity Gay, all Glory Broussard wanted was a little peace and quiet. That included getting back to her Sunday morning routine as a bookie in a coffee shop, and planning the annual Mardi Gras gala for her church. But there’s no rest for Glory once the woman who broke up her marriage walks in to CC's Coffee House and asks for help finding her missing husband. It doesn’t take long before Glory finds him . . . with a knife impaled in his chest.
No one knew the man—and his dark side—better than Glory Broussard, who would rather let the local authorities take the lead. But Glory’s daughter, still reeling from problems of her own, insists on her involvement. Glory’s search for the murderer takes her deep inside the seedy world of Louisiana casinos and racetracks, from their high roller VIP rooms with chatty dealers to stables filled with thoroughbred horses and shady dealings.
As if solving a murder and sparring with the woman who had an affair with her ex-husband isn’t enough, Glory has to get to the bottom of her daughter’s secrets, and there are a few members of her church group who would love to see her fail in her Mardi Gras responsibilities. Walloped with one revelation after another, Glory’s no-nonsense, tellit-like-it-is attitude and strength is tested like never before. But it’s going to take more than that to keep her down in this charming and gripping new novel in the award-winning and critically acclaimed Glory Broussard mystery series.
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Edgar winner Arceneaux's charming sequel to Glory Be finds Louisiana bookie Glory Broussard reluctantly tracking down the killer of her ex-husband, Sterling. Glory—a self-described "Black woman who has done some living"—is sitting at her usual table in CC's Coffee House when she's approached by Valerie Broussard, the woman she blames for breaking up her marriage. Sterling has gone missing, according to Valerie, who begs for Glory's help in finding him. Despite her misgivings, Glory pays a visit to Sterling's rental property, where she finds him dead on the floor with a knife in his chest. Though she's perfectly content to let the police handle the case, her adult daughter, Delphine, insists Glory investigate, so she heads off to gather clues at the local casino and a horse racing stable. Along the way, Glory juggles her detective work with her duties as organizer of the Red Hat Society's highly competitive Mardi Gras festivities and her suspicion that Delphine is keeping secrets from her. Arceneaux continues to shrewdly subvert cozy mystery tropes, placing her spirited heroine in a world with real stakes and genuine adversity, and she throws a few clever curveballs into the central whodunit plot. This series deserves a long life.
