{"id":76710,"date":"2024-12-20T17:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=76710"},"modified":"2024-12-20T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:52:28","slug":"book-feature-the-devil-hath-a-pleasing-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/book-feature-the-devil-hath-a-pleasing-shape\/","title":{"rendered":" Book Feature:<\/strong> The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Roberts, Author<\/em><\/p>\n

Terry Roberts has written another book in his mystery series that features Stephens Robbins solving crimes in some recognizable Western North Carolina locales as Roberts imagines they might have been in the 1920s. In The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape<\/em>, we find Robbins investigating the murder of a young girl staying at the Grove Park Inn. Although the books in this series are \u201ccarefully researched and reasonable portrayals of the time and place,\u201d Roberts says, the events are fictionalized.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThe Grove Park Inn of 1924 is a very different place from the Grove Park familiar to us 100 years later,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was obviously less modern and quite rustic. It is a haunted and haunting place, much more so than today, and as such, it\u2019s the perfect setting for a classic noir mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robbins\u2019 character was introduced in A Short Time to Stay Here,<\/em> where he is the manager of the Mountain Park Hotel and then the Inspector General of the WWI German Internment Camp in Hot Springs. \u201cAs the dramatic events of his life unfold, he eventually earns a reputation as someone who is masterful at locating the missing\u2014both persons as well as things,\u201d says Roberts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would recommend reading the books in [The Stephen Robbins] Chronicles in order if possible,\u201d he says, \u201cbut if any one of the three makes its way into your hands, fix yourself a strong drink, light a lamp on a dark night and begin. Each of the three stands alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Devil Hath a Pleasing Shape, October 1, 2024, mystery, hardcover $30.99, paperback $16.99, by Terry Roberts, and published by Turner Publishing, Nashville, TN. Learn more at TerryRobertsAuthor.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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