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Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans--selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life--is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh pots of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work....
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When beautiful shipping heiress Remy Jardin wakes up in Nice, her memory has disappeared. A blow to the head at Carnival has left her with amnesia. Luckily for Remy, her family finds her and brings her home to New Orleans. Or is it so lucky? Remy's family is friendly and warm, but that warmth might have ulterior motives. Their Louisiana shipping line may be corrupt, and the CEO and Remy's ex-lover Cole Buchanan has something he's keeping from her....
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Novels of the hidden cities volume 2
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To what lengths would you go to undo the pain of the past?
Max Corbett has returned to New Orleans for the funeral of his former girlfriend, Gabrielle Doucette, but between the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of his ruined relationship, the city feels alien.
At Gabrielle's graveside, Max meets Ray. Over a bottle of bourbon in a dive bar, the two discuss Gabrielle's unique connection to the city. Ray suggests that this...
7) Bait
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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.
8) Ghost walk
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Rediscover the thrills and chills of this classic paranormal romantic suspense, book 2 in the Harrison Investigation series, by the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
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...
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Scrapbooking mysteries volume 3
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2005
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303 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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Vampire chronicles volume 6
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
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387 p. ; 25 cm.
12) King Zeno
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick
A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA Magazine
New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge-and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.
From one of the most inventive writers...
13) The chef
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Caleb Rooney volume 1
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2019.
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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...
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"A man murdered during Katrina in a hotel room two blocks from her art-restoration studio was closely tied to a part of Johanna's past that she would like kept secret. But missing from the crime scene is a valuable artwork painted in 1926 by a renowned Belgian artist that might bring it all back. An aquaintance, Clay Fontenot, who has enabled a wide variety of personal violations in his life, some of which he has enjoyed, is the scion of a powerful...
15) A grave mistake
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MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2005
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459 p. ; 25 cm.
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Hardened New Orleans homicide detective Guy Gautreaux must save Jilly Gable, who falls victim to the evil machinations of the wife of a New Orleans antiques dealer and loan shark who claims to be her mother.
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 7
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1994
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367 p. ; 25 cm.
17) Phantom evil
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Krewe of Hunters volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members he's gathered know a little of the otherworldly: each has honed a psychic talent of their own. Jackson Crowe, part English, part Cheyenne, heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost who saved his life as a child, and the recent murders of two previous teammates, Jackson can't tell if Adam's demoted him or...
18) Burn
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As Anna Pigeon recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months, she decides to stay with an old friend from the Park Service. But she isn't in town long before she discovers that someone is attempting to place a curse on her. She begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Now it will take all of Anna's skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself....
19) The loop
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
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198 p. ; 22 cm.
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In New Orleans, Louisiana, star-crossed teens Ben and Maggie try to find a way to escape the time loop that always ends in their murder.
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Scrapbooking mysteries volume 10
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
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323 p. ; 22 cm.
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After postcards signed by a murdered reporter begin showing up at her store, scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand searches for the killer.
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