Brightleaf

by Raleigh Rand

Sometimes very good people do very bad things. The small tobacco town of Brightleaf, North Carolina seems to be a magnet for oddballs. Mary Beth Green, the town’s boarding house owner, embraces them one and all and invites them to participate in the group therapy she runs on Wednesday nights. Not that she is right in head herself. When one of the townspeople mysteriously up and dies Mary Beth becomes a sleuth. A fun-lovin’, character-driven novel that, like a big buttery bowl of popcorn, you won’t want to put down until it’s all gone.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2013

About the author

Raleigh Rand believes the Sasquatch is real.

Reviews

[H.K. Rainey · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was an interesting, small town story. I didn't particularly like the lead character very well. That is to say, I likely would not have been friends with her, but her personality came through nicely. I thought she was a little suspicious and full of trepidation about trying new things, but the way Raleigh wrote the character was very deft and skillful. Mary Beth seemed real, and the characters that populated the Rapturous Rest were also interesting. All in all, a good read with some genuinely funny moments.