Death in Potter's Woods - Craige, Betty Jean
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What is a Georgia mountain town to do when "Robin Hood" threatens to kill its mayor and a citizen or two if three thousand Witherstonians don't donate $5,000 each to rectify the theft of gold and land from the Cherokees two hundred years ago? Some folks donate. Others take their chances. One person dies, in Potter's Woods. The mayor survives an attempt on her life. Police Chief Mev Arroyo and her sons Jorge and Jaime discover that Potter's Woods, occupied by the Cherokee people for a thousand years until the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery, is the site of two murders. And that Robin Hood, "feared by the bad, loved by the good," is connected to both.…mehr

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What is a Georgia mountain town to do when "Robin Hood" threatens to kill its mayor and a citizen or two if three thousand Witherstonians don't donate $5,000 each to rectify the theft of gold and land from the Cherokees two hundred years ago? Some folks donate. Others take their chances. One person dies, in Potter's Woods. The mayor survives an attempt on her life. Police Chief Mev Arroyo and her sons Jorge and Jaime discover that Potter's Woods, occupied by the Cherokee people for a thousand years until the 1832 Georgia Land Lottery, is the site of two murders. And that Robin Hood, "feared by the bad, loved by the good," is connected to both.
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Betty Jean Craige retired from the University of Georgia in 2011 as University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. She has been a scholar, a teacher, a translator of Spanish poetry, and a writer of fiction and non-fiction.Over five decades Betty Jean published numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, and the shorter biography of a remarkable bird, titled Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot. She wrote a Sunday column in the Athens Banner-Herald titled "Cosmo Talks" and later collected those essays in Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo. After retirement she turned her attention to fiction and published six Witherston Murder Mysteries-Downstream, Fairfield's Auction, Dam Witherston, Saxxons in Witherston, Death in Potter's Woods, and Life and Death at Zoo Arroyo-and a thriller about genome therapy titled Aldo. Parrot Sanctuary is her seventh Witherston Murder Mystery.Betty Jean lives in Athens, Georgia, with her beloved Cosmo. See: http://www.bettyjeancraige.org.