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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction.... (more)

The SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW

by Wade Davis

Reissued to coincide with the release of One River--a chronicle of Davis' exploration of the Amazon rain forest--The Serpent and the Rainbow presents the author's account of his venture into the heart of Haiti, on a search for a powerful sedative--a "zombie drug." "Exotic and far-reaching."--The Wall Street Journal.

The Boy Who Couldn't Die

by William Sleator

The "brisk, addictive" thriller, now in paperback! Sleator, a recognized master of sci-fi and horror and a favorite of reluctant readers, is a paperback powerhouse, with more than 600,000 copies of his novels sold in softcover. Here he gives fans a spin on the classic zombie story, following sixteen-year-old Ken as he bargains with a psychic to gain immortality, only to awaken one night with blood-spattered... (more)

Temperance Brennan Novels: Book 11

Devil Bones

by Kathy Reichs

Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs -- international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hit Bones -- returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santería, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims. In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one... (more)

Dead Girls Are Easy

by Terri Garey

There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx—she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush with the afterlife leaves her with the ability to see dead people. Before you can say boo, Atlanta's ghosts are knocking at Nicki's door. Now her days consist of reluctantly cleaning up messes left by the dearly departed, leading ghouls to the Light . . . and... (more)

Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century: a potent mix of whites, Creoles, free blacks, and African slaves, a city pulsing with crowds, commerce, and an undercurrent of secret power. The source of this power is the voodoo religion, and its queen is Marie Laveau, the notorious voodooienne, worshipped and feared by blacks and whites alike.

In Deep Voodoo

by Stephanie Bond

Start With Bad Mojo ... There's something strange afoot in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana. Yet even as the annual voodoo festival gets underway, Penny Francisco, who runs a health food business, refuses to believe in black magic. Her mind is on celebrating her divorce from her lying, cheating husband Deke. Add a Pinprick of Revenge ... Fueled by run-ins with her ex-mother-in-law and Deke's... (more)

Ghost Series: Book 7

Ghost Walk (Mira)

by Heather Graham

This is no dream . . . Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered -- at the exact time Nikki swears the... (more)

Darkfall

by Dean Koontz

Terror strikes a snowbound town when four hideously disfigured corpses are discovered over the course of four days. Reissue. PW.

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Book 2

The Laughing Corpse

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried—and some people better off dead…

Voodoo Season

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Voodoo Season revisits the mystical landscape of New Orleans -- and its most famous Voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau -- that Jewell Parker Rhodes introduced us to in her previous novel Voodoo Dreams . This time, the award-winning author of historical fiction sets the story in the here and now. Meet Marie Levant. The great-great granddaughter of the beloved, tantalizing Marie Laveau, she is compelled by unseen... (more)

Finding Your Mojo

by Stephanie Bond

Q: Where to go when you've lost your mojo? A: Baby, drive south. When attorney Gloria Dalton arrives in the small town of Mojo, Louisiana, she's desperate for change. Her past haunts her—at sixteen she was forced into the witness protection program and ripped away from Zane Riley, the boy she loved. After years of heartbreak and hiding, she's hoping that this move will be her last, that she can make a life... (more)

Yellow Moon: A Novel

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood. What connects them? Why are they rising as ghosts? Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of the Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, knows better than anyone New Orleans's brutal past -- the legacy of slavery, poverty, racism, and sexism -- and as a doctor at Charity Hospital's ER, she treats its current... (more)

Mr. Clarinet

by Nick Stone

There was nothing waiting for ex-cop Max Mingus when he walked out of Attica Prison after serving hard time for murder—his adored wife died in a car crash while he was locked up. Now Miami's one-time top detective is haunted by an empty house, bad memories . . . and an impossible job offer for obscenely good money. Three years ago, Charlie Carver, the five-year-old son of a powerful Haitian billionaire, vanished.... (more)

Leslie : A Novel

by Omar Tyree

The New York Times bestselling novel about a beautiful young woman with a dangerous secret At the historically black Dillard University in the lush city of New Orleans, Leslie Beaudet struggles with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions. Her friends and family see her in many ways -- from a father's deserving princess to a mother's source of pride and strength,... (more)

Gumbo Ya-Ya: a Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

Gumbo Ya-Ya: a Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales

by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer

The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs ever chronicled. A charming look at the legends and practices of the bayou country, especially New Orleans, Gumbo Ya-Ya has endured as a classic in its genre.

Tropic of Night

by Michael Gruber

"Just when it looks as if detective fiction has plowed every gory, suspenseful possibility, along comes a novel that raises the stakes on the genre. Tropic of Night introduces the killer as enchanter, a conjurer schooled in African sorcery. This witch floats through the story literally unseen by his victims, whom he forces to see and hear only what he wants them to. It's a frightening concept executed with poetic... (more)

Clay

by David Almond

Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They’re full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O’Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him—maybe some of their good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it’s Stephen who sees something special in Davie. Stephen’s a gifted sculptor.... (more)

All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By

by John Farris

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

by Martha Ward

Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name, who were two legendary leaders of religious and spiritual traditions many still label as evil. The Laveaus were free women of... (more)

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by John Berendt

by Wade Davis

by William Sleator

by Kathy Reichs

by Terri Garey

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Stephanie Bond

by Heather Graham

by Dean Koontz

by Laurell K. Hamilton

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Stephanie Bond

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Nick Stone

by Omar Tyree

by Lyle Saxon, Edward Dreyer

by Michael Gruber

by David Almond

by John Farris

by Martha Ward