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1) Devious
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Language
English
Description
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, detectives Bentz and Montoy are called in. The deeper the investigation goes, the eerier it gets. More nuns are being brutally slaughtered by someone who seems to know their darkest secrets. Though Bentz is sure Father Frank is their man, there are other suspects, including a killer thought to be dead. Has the monstrous Father John returned? Or is the truth...
2) The chef
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Series
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English
Description
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...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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"Detectives Bentz and Montoya are seeking a serial killer. His victims are always twins. He strikes on the cusp their twenty-first birthday, their ritualistic murders planned in exquisite detail, down to the moment when they breathe their last together"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
When a series of brutal ritual slayings is linked to Our Lady of Virtues Hospital, Eve Renner, whose past is tied to this old asylum, must learn to trust her former lover Cole Dennis, who was accused of attempted murder, when she becomes the killer's next target.
5) Shiver
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Series
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English
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Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya must team up with the prime suspect in a murder case to catch a serial killer who is keeping New Orleans in the grip of fear, an investigation that leads them to an abandoned asylum where unspeakable evil awaits them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work....
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
While working on the restoration of Manet Hall, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of past eras filled with sorrow and terror, and he turns to Angelina Simone to distract him from the eerie events, not realizing that Angelina has a connection to Manet Hall.
9) No mercy
Author
Series
Dark-Hunter novels volume 20
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Shape-shifter Dev Peltier and Dark-Hunter Samia fall in love in spite of Samia's painful history as a betrayed Amazon warrior and the presence of old and new enemies in New Orleans.
11) First the dead
Author
Series
Bug man novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
13) Blood memory
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Experiencing panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes, forensics expert Cat Ferry is suspended from her task force and returns to her Mississippi hometown, where she discovers disturbing information about her father's murder.
Author
Series
Claire DeWitt mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
15) Violin
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A woman from New Orleans steals a violin from a ghost and becomes the musician she always wanted, finding herself acclaimed on two continents. Part fantasy, part reality.
16) Lost souls
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
True crime writer Kristi Benz, searching for the one case that will take her to the top, gets her wish when she enrolls at All Saints College to investigate the brutal murders of three troubled girls, all of whom were found with the blood drained from their bodies.
17) Fat Tuesday
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Former New Orleans policeman Burke Basile kidnaps a mobster's beautiful wife in revenge for the death of his partner. Unforeseen problems begin almost immediately as Basile, hiding with her in a secluded cabin, realizes he is falling in love. The lady is no gangster's moll, her marriage a sacrifice for her family. By the author of Exclusive.
Author
Series
Cafferty and Quinn novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A centuries-old bust of an evil, demonic man was stolen from a New Orleans grave. Its current owner shows up at Danni Cafferty's antiques shop, but before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears and the owner is found dead. Michael Quinn, a private investigator, believes that the right thing to do is to find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni follow it through sultry nights to hidden places in the French Quarter...
19) Storm damage
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a politically connected New Orleans bar owner in the aftermath of a devastating Category 5 hurricane, former police officer and mixed-martial artist Cliff St. James discovers possible CIA involvement in the crime.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
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Description
The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's...
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