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1) Devious
Author
Language
English
Description
When the body of young novice Sister Camille is found garroted in St. Marguerite's cathedral, New Orleans Detectives Bentz and Montoya are called in. Bentz is sure Father O'Toole is their man. But there are other suspects, too, including a ruthless murderer believed to have died years ago.
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Language
English
Description
In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe....
3) Cold blooded
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Plagued by visions of murder that soon become reality, leading her to believe there is a serial killer in New Orleans, Olivia Bechet turns to detective Rick Bentz, who does not believe her until another killing occurs as she described it.
4) The chef
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Series
Language
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...
5) Hot blooded
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Language
English
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Description
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.
9) Wages of sin
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Jass
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Mean woman blues
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
12) A thin dark line
Author
Series
Broussard and Fourcade volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
13) The Last Sinner
Author
Series
Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"There are killers so savage, so twisted, that they leave a mark not just on their victims, but on everyone who crosses their path. For Detectives Bentz and Montoya, Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, is one such monster. Bentz thought he'd ended that horror years ago when he killed Father John deep in the swamp. But now there are chilling signs he may have been wrong. A new victim has surfaced,...
14) Rampart Street
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lady detective Skip Langdon of New Orleans goes after a vigilante who murdered a wife killer that a jury failed to convict. Not an easy job for her as the town is on the side of the vigilante.
17) Lost river
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1913. New Orleans detective Valentin St. Cyr has been absent from his Storyville stomping grounds for some months, trying to make it in the straight detective world and make a go of it with his longtime love, Justine. But then a man is found dead in a Storyville brothel. The madam immediately turns to the creole detective for help.
Author
Series
Quentin Archer mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop killing ... or something more sinister? With no leads to go on, Archer turns to voodoo queen Solange Cordray for help. But is he prepared to follow her advice? As Archer uncovers some surprising facts about the dead man's past, there is another murder. With the simmering racial tensions in the city threatening to escalate into outright...
Author
Publisher
Double Shot Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New Orleans Detective Quinn Conners is haunted by her father's whiskey-soaked, last words -- that he solved the Hudson murder and kidnapping. It wasn't the first time he'd made that drunken claim, and she didn't believe him. Twenty-four hours later she found him dead by his own hand. Quinn blames the investigation for his downfall, so when a woman researching a book about the kidnapping contacts her for help, Quinn shuts her out. But an attempt on...
20) The iron angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Crescent City Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
254 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No one cares much when a couple of street whores working the lowest rung on the prostitutions ladder in 1914 New Orleans are murdered in the same fashion. When a third sporting woman turns up dead, a small panic ensues, and Tom Anderson, the 'King of Storyville.' sends word from his hospital bed to Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr, who grudgingly steps into the investigation"--back cover.
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