New Releases by Barbara Neely

Barbara Neely is the author of Blanche fait le ménage (2025), Blanche em Apuros (2024), Blanche et les seigneurs (2024), Blanche se fait la malle (2024), Blanche Among the Talented Tenth (2015).

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Blanche fait le ménage

release date: Jan 08, 2025

Blanche em Apuros

release date: Dec 09, 2024
Blanche em Apuros
Blanche White trabalhava duro para manter a casa e os dois filhos. Faxineira sem contratação fixa, suportava o tratamento condescendente das madames brancas e ricas que pareciam sequer notar sua presença. Como uma mulher negra e gorda de quarenta anos, acostumou-se a ter uma espécie indesejada de invisibilidade: em suas próprias palavras, sempre dotadas de humor afiado e sarcasmo, era preciso um contato prolongado até que "fosse reconhecida como membro legítimo da raça humana". Mas o que ninguém poderia esperar, nem mesmo a própria Blanche, é que ela se tornaria uma das detetives mais perspicazes da literatura policial moderna. Após levar um calote de seus patrões e ser detida por emissão de cheques sem fundo, ela decide fugir para a aparentemente sossegada Carolina do Norte. As aparências, no entanto, não poderiam ser mais enganosas. Contratada por uma família rica para cuidar da limpeza de sua casa de verão, Blanche logo se vê envolvida em uma ardilosa trama de assassinato e acaba se tornando a principal suspeita do crime. Para descobrir o real assassino e salvar sua pele, ela precisará lançar mão de toda sua astúcia e jogo de cintura.

Blanche et les seigneurs

release date: Aug 21, 2024

Blanche se fait la malle

release date: Jan 03, 2024

Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

release date: Feb 03, 2015
Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
Originally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Blanche on the Lam

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Blanche on the Lam
Winner of the Agatha, Macavity and Anthony Awards. Neely's deftly written first novel pays tribute to the community and culture of a working-class African American woman who becomes both a sleuth and a fugitive from the law. – Publishers Weekly.A unique literary creation. . . . an independent black woman who doesn’t feel incomplete without a man; a maid unapologetic about her profession; and a deeply spiritual woman who finds solace speaking to the Ancestors. – The Boston Globe. It’s hard enough making ends meet on the pittance Blanche White earns doing day work for genteel Southern families. But when her fourth bad check lands her a jail sentence, Blanche goes on the lam. She finds work at the summer home of a wealthy family with plenty of secrets of their own. When a dead body is discovered, Blanche is at the top of the suspect list. Determined to save herself, Blanche decides she must find the killer herself.

Blanche Passes Go

release date: Jan 01, 2001
Blanche Passes Go
Blanche White, the maid-cum-snoop extraordinaire, has had enough of Boston and returns to check things out back home in Farleigh, North Carolina. But the town holds demons for Blanche, including the man who once raped her, now implicated in the murder of a young girl.

Blanche Cleans Up

release date: Jan 01, 1998
Blanche Cleans Up
In Boston, PI Blanche White, the snooping black maid, goes to work for an aspiring state governor, just in time to be in on a murder. As she investigates, Blanche makes known her views of white politicians who suck up to so-called black leaders.

Night girl

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Blanche tire sa révérence

release date: Jan 01, 1996
Blanche tire sa révérence
Une domestique noire devient détective. Début d'une série désopilante. [SDM].
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