Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Series
Publisher
Valancourt Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Harriet Brandt is the daughter of a mad scientist and a mixed-race voodoo priestess. Brought up on her parents' Jamaican plantation, she is forced to flee to Europe after the slaves revolt. Although everyone is initially attracted to Harriet, people who get close to her seem to sicken and die. --- from Amazon.
2) Royal street
Author
Series
Sentinels of New Orleans volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Working for a powerful New Orleans wizard who protects the city from preternatural forces, junior wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco struggles to outmaneuver sinister beings and find her missing mentor when Hurricane Katrina crumbles the borders between the city and the Otherworld.
3) Devil bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion and collapses at the altar. Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer, then disappears into popular legend. Set against a backdrop...
Author
Series
Deadman's Cross novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Valynda Moore was born cursed. So when she dies as the result of a spell gone wrong and is trapped in the body of a voodoo doll, she expects nothing else from her messed up life. Until Thorn, leader of the Hellchasers, offers her a chance at redemption and a new life. But nothing has ever gone her way, for the Malachai, the very beast she and her crew of Deadmen have sworn to keep locked away, has risen. And this time he's taken prisoners. Valynda...
Author
Series
Mambo Reina novels volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors. After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born. No one knows that he has the miraculous gift of hearing the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, he hears flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests inside raindrops. He can also hear the gentle voice of his father, shot dead before Bonaventure was born by a mysterious stranger....
Author
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...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request