Recommended by Connie

I chose to listen to this book because I love a reader who uses a regional accent that represents the setting. The Cutting Season refers to the sugar cane cutting season in Louisiana. Caren Gray is the African-American manager of Belle Vie, a tourist plantation. She is descended from a freed slave who lived at Belle Vie but went missing in 1872. Now, one of the migrant sugar cane workers has been murdered after finding a human bone on the plantation. This is terrifically suspenseful and atmospheric.