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c2007., Mira Call No: Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "[This story is ]set in post-Katrina New Orleans, where three women, Lauren, Heidi and Deanna, have turned up for a carefree bachelorette weekend. Once there a fortune teller shows Lauren a crystal ball image of a man calling her by name and promising a world of blood and death and darkness. The vision, unseen by her friends, puts Lauren on her guard, convinced that someone is following her. She's doubly right: an evil vampire named Stephen is on her trail, having seen in Lauren the visage of his lost love, while a vampire hunter named Mark Davidson is on Stephen's. Soon, Lauren falls in with Mark, counting on him to protect her from the single-minded bloodsucker; as she learns more about the vampire underworld, however, she finds things aren't all they seem."--Publishers Weekly.
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2019., Adult, Little, Brown and company Call No: MYS Fic Pat Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 makes a pair of unthinkable discoveries. His beloved city is under threat of attack. And these would-be terrorists may be local.
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2007, p2006., General, Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Deja Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families is blown up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the recovery of evidence from the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit. The unit uses technology to directly look back in time a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: would it be possible to use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?.
![Deja vu [DVD] (2006). Directed by Tony Scott](/Library/images/~imageCT73748.JPG "Deja vu [DVD] (2006). Directed by Tony Scott")
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By Krist, Gary2014., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: 976.3 K89e Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City. The remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite 'better half' against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world"--Provided by publisher.
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c1997., Warner Books Call No: Fic Bro Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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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By Fink, Sheri[2013], Adult, Random House Inc Call No: 362.11 F499f Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions without essential resources.
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c2013., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: Fic Rob Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Twas the night before Christmas, and dozens of rich, influential hostages are trapped inside a sprawling lakefront mansion in New Orleans. The perp? Detective Reed Ware, model cop turned outlaw. After receiving a panicked call from Hollis "Holly" Bayard, a teenage street tough with a penchant for amateur sleuthing who stumbles upon the scene of a drug-deal-turned- murder, Ware finds his and his friend's lives in dire danger. The crime Holly witnessed could be the biggest police cover-up this side of New Orleans -- and no one's talking. Driven to desperate measures to uncover the truth, Ware stages a coup at a Christmas party for the New Orleans elite, including the mayor, the council chairman, the sheriff, and the superintendent of police, who just happens to be hostage negotiator Caroline Wallace's estranged father. Cool, calm, controlled. That's Caroline's reputation. But when she's brought in to talk Ware off the proverbial ledge, she realizes no amount of false promises is going to placate this man, who looks even hotter than he did years ago when seventeen-year-old Caroline tried to seduce him. It was his duty to protect her family then. Now it's her turn. if she can think fast enough over the pounding of her heart. When Caroline becomes wrapped up in the drama, it's clear the sizzling tension she shared with Ware never let up. And the harder she tries to defuse the situation, the more she begins to wonder whose side she's really on..."--Publisher.
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2017., Adult, Counterpoint Call No: BLK Fic Sex Edition: First Counterpoint hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter, Jackie, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life. Jackie's son, T.C., loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina, but the New Orleans he knew didn't survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges, T.C. decides to start over--until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal. For Evelyn, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history."-- Dust jacket.
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c2007., Mira Books Call No: MYS Fic Spi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A gruesome discovery is made in one of the "refrigerator graveyards" in New Orleans in August 2005. Captain Patti O'Shay is assigned to the case. O'Shay's husband, also a police captain, is murdered by looters. In 2007, skeletal remains have been found which tie this case to the one from 2005. The police badge that had belonged to O'Shay's husband is found beside the victim's bones.
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2013., Harlequin MIRA Call No: Fic Gra Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It was stolen from a New Orleans grave the centuries-old bust of an evil man, a demonic man. Itœs an object desired by collectors and by those with wickedness in their hearts.One day, its current owner shows up at Danni Caffertyœs antiques shop on Royal Street, the shop she inherited from her father. But before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears, the owner is found deadand Danni discovers that sheœs inherited much more than she realized. In the store is a book filled with secret writing: instructions for defeating evil entities. Sheœd dismissed it as a curiosityuntil the arrival of this statue, with its long history of evil and even longer trail of death.Michael Quinn, former cop and now private investigator, is a man with an unusual past. He believes that doing the right thing isnœt a job itœs a way of life. And the right thing to do is find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni are drawn together in their search for the missing statue, following it through sultry New Orleans nights to hidden places in the French Quarter and secret ceremonies on abandoned plantations. Cafferty and Quinn already know that trust in others can be misplaced, that love can be temporary. And yet their connection is primal. Mesmerizing. They also know that their story wonœt end when this case is closed and the dead rest in peace once again.
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[2005], Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: BLK 305.896 B154l Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2008., Kensington Books Call No: MYS Fic Jac Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New Orleans mysteries Volume: 5Summary Note: 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.
