Author: Barbara Neely Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Humor
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ISBNs: 9780140277470 0140277471 |
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Blanche White is a very black, middle-aged woman who cleans white people's houses for a living. Tart-tongued and shrewd, with a keen nose for trouble, she's also a queen-sized snoop - who sees at a glance what people are really up to - especially if it's criminal. It's been three years since she had to grab the kids and scurry out of Farleigh, North Carolina. Now they've all settled into life in the Roxbury section of Boston, and Blanche herself is feeling like she may finally be free to enjoy life - at least a little. But before Blanche can say, "Breakfast is ready, " she gets suckered into standing in as cook-housekeeper to one Allister Brindle, a Boston Brahmin politician, and his do-gooder wife. Blanche is quickly enmeshed in a festering canker of a scandal that moves from the Brindles' house (a.k.a. Prozac House) to her own black community as she tries to figure out the truth behind the swimming-pool death of a young black man who knew a little too much...
This book is part of the "Blanche White" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Blanche Passes Go" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Blanche on the Lam" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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