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Carp (Paperback)

by Chris Cawood (Author), Gaynell Seale (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Magnolia Hill Press (Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0964223147
  • ISBN-13: 978-0964223141
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,658,259 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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CARP is a Southern mystery-adventure with a lot of river
CARP is a mystery-adventure leaning more to the adventure side. Joe Chapman is a recently divorced, bankrupt, and suspended lawyer who sets out for a summer's cruise on the lakes of the Tennessee River system with his dog J. R. Just as he prepares to leave, a purse washes up to his dock with partial identification of a Baton Rouge woman inside. Joe first disregards the find but a little later becomes obsessed with finding this woman. He takes off toward Baton Rouge on a circuitous route on his boat. Just a few days after he leaves East Tennessee, bodies begin to float to the surface of the Tennessee River putting Joe's best friend-attorney general Charles Palk-into an unsettling investigation during an election year. CARP is more than a murder mystery though, as Joe Chapman continues to look for the woman of his dreams. This is a river adventure rich in setting, character development, and action. Enjoy. Chris Cawood

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4.0 out of 5 stars A must for river rats and story lovers., 10 Jun 1998
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I am always searching for southern stories and writers. Pat Conroy is my all time favorite, but Chris Cawood has written a great story. His setting was like old home week for me because my parents had a home on one of the TVA lakes and his word pictures of the Tennessee River were right on target. He does a remarkable job of using foreshadowning and weaving in details for further use in the story. I also loved the fantasy dreams that the character Carp had and felt that this was also well done and very believable. It added a new dimension to the mystery and suspense. It is writers like Cawood who make me proud to be a southerner and a fellow Tennessean.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, 27 Mar 1998
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For a southern writer that I had never heard of, I was very pleasantly surprised by the readability of this book. After having finished it, I immediately bought another book by Cawood and am surprised that I've heard nothing about this author.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good (unmistakably) Southern mystery, 22 Feb 1998
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CARP is a nice book, and, I think Chris Cawood must be a nice man. He apologizes in his preface for the "explicit sex and coarse language," but for a book of this genre it is remarkably mild. The protagonist's life has been involuntarily simplified by a divorce and lawsuit which left him with nothing except a houseboat, which he renames the CARP after the trash fish frequently found in the TVA lakes, a dog and a motorcycle. The part of the book I liked best was the description of his travels on the lake system created by the TVA dams on the Tennessee river. The journey is in response to a comment that "If you've been pursuing happiness, I think your dog has lost the scent." His search for happiness involves him in pursuit of a fantasied woman, with people involved in the drug trade, and with several dead bodies. The style is somewhat reminiscent of that of John Grisham. Ultimately it is a novel of redemption of a "good old boy" who has never paid much attention to anything important.
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