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1) The chef
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Caleb Rooney volume 1
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English
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Police detective by day, celebrity food truck chef by night, now Caleb Rooney has a new title: Most Wanted. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty--as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney...
2) Fat Tuesday
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English
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"Burke Basile is a cop whose world shattered when a fellow officer dies by a bullet fired from Burke's own gun. Burke focuses his rage on his nemesis; Pinkie Duvall, a sinister, flamboyant defense attorney who has just helped a known killer get away with murder."--Jacket.
3) Hunted
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Charlotte Stone volume 2
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English
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Caroline Wallace is a top New Orleans PD hostage negotiator who has never failed to get every hostage out alive. This time, the hostages include the chief of police and the mayor. She's trying to negotiate with Reed Ware, a former coworker who left the force under investigation by Internal Affairs. When the SWAT team runs out of patience and launches an attack, Reed takes Caroline hostage and escapes with her in the chaos. Reed reveals to Caroline...
4) Never never
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"Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16
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English
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Hurricane Katrina has reduced the Big Easy to the level of a medieval society. Now, with looters descending and violence erupting in the streets, Iberia Parish sheriff's detective Dave Robicheaux combs the apocalyptic landscape for a quartet of criminals who hijacked a rescue boat from a drug-addicted ex-priest at the height of the storm, and then scooped up a gangster's hidden fortune. In a world without order or sanctuary, revenge will come swift...
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The city of New Orleans has long been a favorite backdrop for movie producers, and now one of Charlotte LaRue's best clients, Bitsy Duhe, is getting in on the action. A big Hollywood studio wants to use her gorgeous Victorian house for a movie shoot, and Bitsy wants Charlotte to take care of her beloved home during the shoot. For Charlotte, it's an exciting change of pace - until the backstage drama turns into a murder mystery.
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Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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The New Orleans Jazzy hotel, a historic Garden District mansion, serves as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of socially elite women in their forties. When a young women is found strangled, apparently with a red scarf, it's time for Charlotte to start scouring through clues before the real villian makes a clean getaway.
8) Thigh high
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Series
Fortune hunters series volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Nessa Dahl always had the good sense to steer clear of trouble. Then Jeremiah MacNaught showed up in New Orleans, determined to get to the bottom of a string of bank robberies by two women wearing Mardi Gras masks. Little does Nessa realize that the handsome investigator is convinced she's involved with the crimes-or that he's willing to do anything to get the truth. Even if it means taking the beautiful woman he's convinced is a liar and a thief...
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"Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from...
10) Ghost walk
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Series
Harrison Investigations volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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This is no dream . . . Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered -- at the exact time Nikki swears the distraught woman was in her room. No one believes...
11) The forbidden
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Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 34
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"She is someone's darkest desire Playing the victim of a vampire king on an island off New Orleans is actress Avalon Morgan's creepiest role to date. It's also scary good fun--until the victim of a real killer is discovered on set, laid out for all to see. With production shut down, Avalon can't stop thinking about the chilling crime scene, or Grayson Avery, the investigator working the case. With a rising body count and zero leads, Gray can't help...
12) The unforgiven
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Krewe of Hunters volume 33
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a good job, a place to call home and a new life to live. But then a shadow creeps in from Katie's past, reminding her that she will never completely escape its terrifying grip. When private investigator Dan Oliver is called to the scene of a gruesome crime in New Orleans, he can't help but hear echoes of the Delaney case, the unsolved murder...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A shocking murder strikes a sour note during Jazz Fest in the latest New Orleans Scrapbooking Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura ChildsIt's Jazz Fest in New Orleans, and the giant puppets from the Beastmaster Puppet Theatre are parading through the French Quarter. Some are very spooky and veiled, others are tall and gangly, like strange aliens. As the parade proceeds, Carmela Bertrand and her best friend, Ava, follow behind, down...
14) The unknown
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Series
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Sienna Murray was only fourteen when she pulled her neighbors out of a raging house fire. A decade later, she still can't explain what happened that night, how she knew to save them at just the right moment--or why she receives the same mysterious warning when it happens again... New member of the Krewe of Hunters elite paranormal team Detective Ryder Stapleton doesn't believe in coincidences. So when the suspicious fire he's called to investigate...
15) Waking the dead
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Cafferty and Quinn novels volume 2
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English
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The painting Ghosts in the Mind by Henry Sebastian Hubert is reputed to come to life -- and to bring death. The artist was a friend of Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, joining them in Switzerland during 1816, "the year without a summer." That was when they all explored themes of horror and depravity in their art. Now, almost two hundred years later, the painting appears in New Orleans. Wherever it goes, death seems to follow. Danielle Cafferty and Michael...
16) The stalking
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"With the execution of a serial killer known as the Artiste, Cheyenne Donegal thinks a grim part of her past is finally put to rest. Her cousin had been the twisted killer's final victim, and then-teenage Cheyenne was integral in bringing him to justice. That tragedy drove her to become an FBI agent. And now she's back in Louisiana because someone is murdering young women in the same manner as the Artiste. Krewe of Hunters agent Andre Broussard has...
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"Set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans, this new work from the acclaimed author of Between Earth and Sky is a powerful story of human resilience--and of the unlikely bonds that hold fast even in our darkest moments. "The dead can't hurt you--only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write,...
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