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1) 13 1/2
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English
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In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
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Mayfair witches volume 2
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the second installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles—the inspiration for the hit television series!
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,”...
“[Anne] Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World
In seventeenth-century Scotland, the first “witch,”...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 16
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English
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Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city
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While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
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Tracy Whitney novels volume 1
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Morrow
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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Tracy Whitney is sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment due to a frame-up. On her escape, she uses her intelligence, beauty and ice-cold nerve, in a vendetta against the mobsters responsible.
7) Blood Red
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English
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Rediscover a thrilling world of immortals and intrigue in this classic paranormal romantic suspense, only from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
Yes, there are vampires in America; Mark Davidson knows it. And what city is more likely to be stalked by them than New Orleans?
But Lauren Crow doesn't believe in vampires. Not at first. She and her friends are spending a bachelorette...
Yes, there are vampires in America; Mark Davidson knows it. And what city is more likely to be stalked by them than New Orleans?
But Lauren Crow doesn't believe in vampires. Not at first. She and her friends are spending a bachelorette...
8) The client
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb.... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And...
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Sister Holiday novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn). When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn’t satisfied to just wait...
11) Motif for murder
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Scrapbooking mysteries volume 4
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
12) Tragic magic
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Scrapbooking mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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"Design-wise Carmela Bertrand of Memory Mine scrapbook store is tapped to create spooky set decorations for Medusa Manor, a new haunted house attraction in New Orleans. But a flaming body hurled from the third-floor tower might just put a damper on the project" -- from author's web site.
15) Merrick: a novel
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Vampire chronicles volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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An unknowing descendant of both the gens de couleurs libres and the Mayfair witches, Merrick follows adventures through the Guatemalan jungles, Mayan ruins, and New Orleans, as told from the perspective of vampire scribe David Talbot.
David Talbot, an adventurer and near-mortal vampire, narrates the saga of Merrick, a descendant of the Mayfair witches, from whom she inherits her magical gifts, and of a mixed African and French background that is...
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Thorndike Press
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c2009, c1991
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English
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Globe-trotting photographer Danielle doesn't think she'll survive six weeks in New Orleans, babysitting her sister's five children. She needs help-- and tall, dark, Cajun Remy is convinced she needs more than a nanny...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When a dead body turns up in the magnificent Bon Vee Culinary House Museum in New Orleans, the NOPD zeroes in on the head of the Charbonnet family, known for their valuable French wine, as Ricki James-Diaz wonders what kind of secret her mentor has bottled up.
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John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Young widow Constance, in 1900 New Orleans, and widowed and pregnant seamstress, Alice, who, in exchange for lodging, agrees to help her create a beautiful Mardi Gras gown, form an unlikely bond that reveals the truth surrounding Constance's husband's mysterious death.
19) Death swatch
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Series
Scrapbooking mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Jekyl Hardy is hosting a Mardi Gras party in his French Quarter apartment, amid Zydeco rhythms and popping champagne corks. On a wild night like this, anything can happen. The guests--including scrapbook-store owner Carmela Bertrand--never imagine it will be murder. But as the evening progresses, Jekyl's neighbor, float designer Archie Baudier, is found on the balcony choked to death with a barbed wire garrote. Buried up to her neck in strange clues,...
20) The unforgiven
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Krewe of Hunters volume 33
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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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