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1) Hot blooded
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English
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Dr. Samantha Leeds hosts her own late-night radio talk show on WSLJ. One day she receives a menacing phone call at her home, while miles away a prostitute is strangled to death. Nobody connects the seemingly unrelated events until more murders occur under similar circumstances.
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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.
3) Shiver
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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.
4) Devious
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2011.
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English
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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...
5) 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...
6) Fat Tuesday
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English
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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.
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Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.
"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...
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Cafferty and Quinn novels volume 1
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English
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It was stolen from a New Orleans grave -- the centuries-old bust of an evil man, a demonic man. It's an object desired by collectors -- and by those with wickedness in their hearts. One day, its' current owner shows up at the antique shop on Royal Street that Danni Cafferty inherited from her father. But before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears, the owner is found dead ... and Danni discovers that she's inherited much more than she realized....
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"After Alice's older brother runs away at fifteen, the next she hears of him is that he's dead. Eight years after the funeral, Alice cleans out her childhood home in Georgia only to find her brother's autopsy report showing the many lies behind his death. She also discovers sealed, addressed letters he wrote shortly before he died. In a search for the truth, Alice delivers the letters to his closest friends, lovers, and enemies, each letter daring...
10) Midnight Bayou
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Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it. So when the opportunity to buy the house comes up, Declan jumps at the chance to live out a dream. Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation...
11) Bait
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2004
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English
Description
Narrowly escaping an attempt on her life while on a business trip in New Orleans, attorney Maddie Fitzgerald is unnerved by attractive FBI agent Sam McCabe, who reveals that Maddie is being targeted by an elusive hired killer.
12) Malice
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English
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When a copy of his first wife's death certificate arrives in the mail, emblazoned with a red question mark, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles. He must return to the painful memories he's tried so hard to forget, and travels straight into a killer's web that catches Bentz as the prime suspect.
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Hanover Square Press
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English
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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...
14) Burn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, only to become the target of a dark curse, prompting her to investigate what is has to do with Geneva's creepy tenant and a fugitive mother accused of having killed her family.
15) A thin dark line
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©1997
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English
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In Louisiana, Deputy Sheriff Annie Broussard catches Detective Renard beating a man the whole town believes is guilty of murder even though a court acquitted him. Annie arrests Renard, only to become ostracized by the town and suspended from the police department. But Renard too is suspended and in a twist of fate the pair must join forces to investigate the murder anew. By the author of Guilty as Sin.
16) Phantom evil
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English
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Heading a group of paranormal investigators for the government, Jackson Crow--part English, part Cheyenne--uses his link to the realm of spirits to help solve the mysterious death of a senator's wife with the help of Angela Hawkins, a police officer with paranormal intuition.
17) Cold steel rain
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Series
Danny Chaisson novels volume 1
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
When both Danny Chaisson and Mickie Vega are set up as scapegoats, they combine forces to fight politics as usual in New Orleans.
18) 13 1/2
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English
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When Polly falls in love with Marshall, a restoration architect who is helping to rebuild New Orleans, shadows of the past rise out of the poisoned ground as thick and deadly as the toxic waters of the flood. Some crimes are doomed to repeat themselves ... only the victims' names change.
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Scrapbooking mysteries volume 8
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Berkley Prime Crime
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English
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It's Halloween in New Orleans. Ava and Carmela overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler just minutes before they find Fowler's dead body. After another victim is discovered--who also had an unfriendly relationship with Jekyl--Carmela is convinced someone is framing her friend.
20) Deadly gift
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Flynn brothers trilogy volume 3
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English
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After arriving in America as an Irish nurse, banshee Caer Donahue yearns for a mortal life when she is submerged in a mystery of sunken treasure and attempted murder, which leads her into the loving arms of Zach Flynn.
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