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Series
Mambo Reina novels volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After solving a crime blamed on Vodou in New Orleans's French Quarter, Vodou priestess turned amateur detective Reina Dumond has returned to her benevolent work as a healer. But when her friend and enigmatic client Evangeline "Vangie" Stiles comes to her for a spell, Mambo Reina quickly realizes what Vangie really needs is a sleuth. Something is amiss in the Stileses' marriage. Five thousand dollars has inexplicably appeared in the bank account Vangie...
82) King Zeno
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation's. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans's faded mercantile glory. The war is ending and a prosperous...
Author
Series
Witches of New Orleans volume 3
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Once caged in an illusory realm by blood relatives, Alice Marin has been freed into a world where the last remnants of magic are quickly passing away. Dissolving with them is the unity among witches... and their sanity. Grappling with the revelations of her true parentage--and her burgeoning relationship with Nathalie Boudreau, a psychic with her own demons--Alice and her allies, both living and dead, must draw on every skill they possess. It's the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Lacy Marie Crocker can hardly believe it's been a year since her return home to New Orleans. There hasn't been a dull moment since opening her pet boutique last summer, and thanks to the popularity of Lacy's organic pet treats, and the arrival of the National Pet Pageant, Lacy desperately needs some help before she is overrun by the demand for pupcakes and crinolines. The entire Garden District seems to be counting the minutes until opening night...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
PI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed. Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who will do whatever is necessary to...
86) The last sinner
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Father John, the notorious serial killer, is back for revenge, as well an all new killing spree. He hires prostitutes and then strangles them with rosary beads, leaving behind a hundred dollar bill with Ben Franklin's eyes burned out. Also in his cross-hairs is Bentz's daughter, Kristi, a true crime writer, who survives an attack when the novel opens but it ends with her husband Jay's death. Was the attack the work of Father John? Or is there another...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And this is no ordinary student lecture at Quantico. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia's skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to create spaces. These perspectival, character-driven stories center on the margins and are deeply rooted in New Orleanian culture. In "Beg Borrow Steal," a boy relishes time spent helping his father find work after just coming home from prison; in "Ghetto University," a couple whose been struggling financially turn to crime after hitting rock bottom; in "Before I Let You Go," a woman who's been in NOLA...
Author
Series
Crescent City novels (Bryan Camp) volume 1
Publisher
John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"The fate of New Orleans rests in the hands of a wayward grifter in this novel of gods, games, and monsters ... The post-Katrina New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes is a place haunted by its history and by the hurricane's destruction, a place that is hoping to survive the rebuilding of its present long enough to ensure that it has a future. Street magician Jude Dubuisson is likewise burdened by his past and by the consequences of the storm, because...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it's clear that's not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself-so that she can become one and then save her father. Armed with research,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"En agosto de 2005, mucho antes de los crímenes que conmocionaron el valle del Baztán, una joven Amaia Salazar de veinticinco años, subinspectora de la Policía Foral, participa en un curso de intercambio para policías de la Europol en la Academia del FBI, en Estados Unidos, que imparte Aloisius Dupree, el jefe de la unidad de investigación. Una de las pruebas consiste en estudiar un caso real de un asesino en serie a quien llaman "el compositor",...
92) The unforgiven
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 33
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Devil's Isle volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"A brand new series from New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill. Seven years ago, the Veil that separates humanity from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those who live there call it Devil's Isle. Claire Connolly is a good girl with a dangerous secret: she's a Sensitive, a human endowed...
94) On the 7th day
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
David and Kari are a successful, church-going couple whose life is upended when their young daughter is abducted. It appears that the child has been taken by a serial killer who dispatches his victims after seven days of imprisonment. Compounding matters, the police investigation reveals truths about Kari that shake the foundations of her marriage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Scrapbooking mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It'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 Royal Street and past the food booths. Suddenly, they hear a terrible crash from Devon Dowling's antiques shop. They rush inside to find Devon collapsed...
97) The unknown
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
98) His to defend
Author
Series
NOLA Knights volume 1
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Though his methods may be rough, when it comes to protecting what's his, Russian vor Sergei Petrovyh's heart is always in the right place. That's never been more true than when the gorgeous Evette Labadie asks him for a job. He knows enough to keep his hands off someone as beloved by the locals as Evie, but there's something about her that calls to him-no matter how badly he burns to make her his. Don't think Evie hasn't noticed the powerful Russian...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Quinn never expected that her best friend's courageous decision to be a single mother by choice would end up transforming her own life in this poignant novel from USA Today bestselling author Robin Wells. When Quinn Langston's best friend unexpectedly passes away, Quinn knows she'll do anything to protect Brooke's three-year-old daughter Lily and her grandmother Margaret. Not only is Quinn the little girl's godmother, but they are the family she...
100) Lawless
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bernadette "Bernie" Hunt prides herself on never settling. In school, she was always at the top of her class, and after graduating from Spellman with honors she landed a job at one of Atlanta's top marketing firms. She lives by her father's motto: "the best of everything, or nothing at all." Bernie excels in life, but love is another story. Being gorgeous, smart and from a well-to-do family, she has no shortage of high society suitors vying for her...
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