title: The Witch Doctor's Wife
author:  Tamar Myers 
description: Starred Review. Myers draws on her own experiences as the daughter of white missionaries living in the Belgian Congo for this dazzling novel full of authentic African lore. In 1958, Amanda Brown and her fellow passengers suffer only minor injuries when the plane bringing them to the diamond mining community of Belle Vue makes a crash landing. The 23-year-old South Carolina native, who's spent six months in Belgium studying French and the Congolese language of Tshiluba, has come to Belle Vue to run a missionary guesthouse, where she soon employs one of a local witch doctor's two wives, the delightful, no-nonsense Cripple. The discovery of a huge uncut diamond sets off a chain of unfortunate events leading to Cripple's being charged with murder. This marks a major breakthrough for Myers as she displays storytelling skills not recently seen in the claustrophobic confines of her Pennsylvania-Dutch (<I>Batter Off Dead</I>) and Den of Antiquity (<I>Poison Ivory</I>) mystery series. <I>(Nov.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: The Doctor Witch
  
  Lauren McMinn
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2012 Lauren McMinn
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN-10: 1478131802
  
    
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1478131809
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  DEDICATION
  
  To Jonathan McMinn
  
  For his infinite support
  
    
  
    
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
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  Selby Kincaid strapped himself into his hot rod convertible, or as he liked to
  call it, his baby. He adjusted the mirrors and put the top down, running his
  fingers through his short brown hair to prepare it for the wind.
  
  “Don’t you think I’m gorgeous, Skylar?” He asked his younger sister, who was
  currently propping her elbows up on the side of his door. Her blond hair,
  which normally reached her lower back, was currently whipping around her in
  the wind, making it difficult to see her face. But he knew she disapproved,
  especially from her tone of voice.
  
  “You’re going to a damn funeral, Selby! This isn’t the time or the place to be
  worried about your looks!”
  
  “There’s sure to be some woman who needs consoling.” He laughed merrily.
  
  1
  
  THE DOCTOR WITCH
  