Ben Telfair gives up his education to apprentice in stonemasonry with his grandfather, Pawpaw, in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s, and as the two bond, the distance between them and the rest of their family grows.
When thirteen bodies are discovered inside a small Louisville restaurant just after closing time, criminology professor Daniel Millikan is called in to make a profile of the killer, but soon Daniel finds himself more involved in the case than he wants to be.
In 1899, the Travelin' Nine baseball team travels across the country playing games and earning enough money to pay off the Payne family's debts, when Griffith realizes there is more at stake than the family's finances if they don't win their next game.
the remarkable friendship between an escaped slave and her former mistress
Asher, Brad
2011
Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls in 1846. While there, Cecelia made the decision to cross the Niagara River to freedom in Canada, leaving her enslaved mother and brother behind in Kentucky. Relationships between escaped slaves and their former owners are rare and a cache of letters from Fanny to Cecelia confirms their extraordinary link. Cecelia and Fanny's lives were very different. Fanny stayed in Louisville, married, raised a family and endured the war and its aftermath with difficulty but was protected by her wealth and status. Cecelia also married in Canada but lost her husband and then moved to Rochester, New York and remarried. This husband went off to fight in the Civil War. In 1865 Cecelia returned to Louisville and renewed her contact with Fanny and her family. Fanny's son recorded all the information he could in 1899 and preserved the correspondence between Fanny and Cecelia.
Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.
Grant and Christina investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and two jockeys when they tag along with Mimi and Papa to the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, Kentucky.