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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?.
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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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      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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      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.
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      2009., Kensington Pub. Corp. Call No: MYS Fic Jac    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: New Orleans mysteries   Volume: 6Summary Note: 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, returning to the painful memories he's tried so hard to forget, and straight into a killer's web that catches Bentz as the prime suspect.
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      c2007., Alyson Call No: MYS Fic Her    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Chanse MacLeod mysteries   Volume: 3 Summary Note: When private investigator Chanse MacLeod discovers that his last client before hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans was murdered - the very night she hired him to find her long missing father - Chanse is drawn into the deadly, secretive world of the Verlaine family.
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      2014., Adult, Knopf Call No: Fic Ric    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Vampire chronicles   Volume: 11Summary Note: "The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis...vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned... Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto and San Francisco. As the novel moves from present day New York and the West Coast to Ancient Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles--from Louis de Pointe du Lac, the eternally young Armand whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the Secret Talamasca, and Marius, the true child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures--come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who--or what--The Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why... And, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great "hope" of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat."--Publisher.
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      c2011., Severn House Pub Ltd. Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: When a witness claims to have seen Hüseyin Pasha hurl two girls' dead bodies from his attic window on Bourbon Street, everyone in New Orleans is willing to believe the "devilish Infidel" is guilty except Benjamin January. Only Benjamin, driven by memories of his first meeting with the Turk in Paris ten years earlier, is willing to brave public outrage and mob violence to seek for the true culprit.