LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- A tale of a Southern family's secrets and rise to wealth. From the Memoirs of Lora "A Time Gone By" (now available through AuthorHouse) by Lynetta Jordan follows a young woman's pursuit of the truth and uncovers shocking information.
In 1956, Barbara Jourdan, a fashion model and heir to the Cartier tobacco fortune, is murdered. Although officials point to her mobster husband Danny, her younger sister, 25-year-old Lora-Lee, believes there is something more behind the killing.
In her search for answers, Lora-Lee uncovers details about her family's past. She races to her Grandmother Lora's home to confront her about the facts she has learned. She unearths a path of mystery, intrigue and lies that ultimately take her into the mystic world of voodoo. Lora-Lee, the "master sleuth" of the family, gives a first-person perspective on her powerful family's history, the pain of her sister's murder, her close relationship with her matriarchal grandmother and the family history that shakes this dynasty's core.
Throughout From the Memoirs of Lora, Grandmother Lora writes her memoirs in an effort to record her extraordinary life and the building of her family's tobacco empire, CUNCAR. She describes the web of ancestry deceit that brewed everywhere from the back streets of New Orleans to the African Sudan to a Louisiana plantation during the Civil War era.
From the Memoirs of Lora presents a challenging plot that draws readers into one family's legacy of secrets.
Jordan, born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, has been published in "Theater of the Mind," Noble House Publisher's Anthology in the U.K. and numerous International Library of Poetry anthologies. She is a member of the International Society of Poets and the Academy of American Poets in New York and Sisters in Crime, an international organization of mystery writers, agents and booksellers. From the Memoirs of Lora is her first full-length mystery novel, and she is working on a second about the infamous Cartier clan, Rush to Judgment.
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