Black
Willows
Trapnell
Thriller Book 2
by
Jill Hand
Genre:
Thriller
A
mysterious cowboy is stalking the eccentric Trapnell siblings. Is he
a supernatural entity or a hired killer? To complicate things, the
will making them heirs to their billionaire father’s estate is
missing and a relative has returned from a watery grave.
Last
time, the Trapnells saved the world from destruction. This time they
may not be able to save themselves. Black
Willows
is
a darkly funny Southern-fried adventure, complete with Voodoo, arson,
and alligators.
White
Oaks
Trapnell
Thriller Book 1
“An
ingeniously dark comic thriller about greed, gluttony and murder that
is destined for the big screen.” –Best Thrillers
Aimee
Trapnell reluctantly leaves her apartment on Manhattan’s Central
Park West to return to her childhood home in Georgia for her father’s
ninetieth birthday. Also on hand are her two brothers, wily Marsh and
ne’er-do-well Trainor. With a forty-billion-dollar inheritance at
stake, they’re willing to do whatever it takes to make the old man
happy.
To
their shock they learn that what their father wants for his birthday
is to kill someone. He doesn’t care who it is. He just wants to
know what it’s like to commit murder.
Betrayal,
double-dealing, and fast-paced action set the Trapnells on a
collision course with an unexpected villain. Their journey takes them
from the swamps of Georgia, to Italy’s glittering Amalfi coast, to
rugged Yellowstone National Park.
Jill
Hand is a member of International Thriller Writers. Her Southern
Gothic novels, White Oaks, and Black Willows, are available on Amazon
and from the publisher, Black Rose Writing.
Advance
readers called White Oaks a fast-paced, hilarious account of three
siblings who are competing for their father's forty-billion-dollar
fortune while trying to prevent the destruction of Planet
Earth.
Diane
Donovan, senior reviewer from Midwest Book Review praised White Oaks,
calling it, "an unusually multifaceted tale that holds the
ability to prompt laughter from thriller-style tension."
A
sequel to White Oaks, Black Willows, follows the adventures of the
squabbling, dysfunctional Trapnell family.
GUEST POST
Most
of the action in Black Willows takes place in a beautifully preserved
Southern plantation house. While researching antebellum architecture
I discovered a secret language hidden in plain sight on the gracious
old buildings of the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Overhanging
ironwork balconies not only shade the sidewalks from the fierce
Louisiana heat, they tell a story. Tucked among the wrought iron
vines and flowers and interwoven initials of the buildings’
original owners are traditional West African symbols called adinkra.
They represent strength, endurance, imperishability and a variety of
other concepts. Customarily woven into fabric and painted on pottery,
adinkras were added to the iron balconies and gates and fences of the
Vieux Carré by enslaved people who were apprenticed to blacksmiths.
To those in the know, their meaning was clear, but to the
unenlightened they were just abstract designs, nothing more than
pretty decorations.
White
Oaks, home to the eccentric, wealthy Trapnell family, has gorgeous
ironwork running along its second-floor balcony, with adinkras
incorporated into the design. When faced with a terrifying
supernatural threat the Trapnells turn for help to a descendant of
the slave who chose which adinkras to add. Her response sends the
story racing to a surprising conclusion.
More
about adinkras and their meanings can be found here:
https://www.adinkrasymbols.org/
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