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1) Devil bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
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English
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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, Santera, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims. In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery...
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Jewell Parker Rhodes follows up her acclaimed Voodoo Dreams with a present-day mystery surrounding the gifts of an ancestor of the Voodoo Queen. Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are at work-and it's up to her to stop them.
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"Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from...
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A literary prank leads to deadly danger in this “endlessly diverting” intellectual thriller by the author of The Name of the Rose (Time).
Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the geographical point from...
Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with occult groups across the centuries. Becoming obsessed with their own creation, they produce a map indicating the geographical point from...
5) Yellow moon
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The second novel in Jewell Parker Rhodes' acclaimed Voodoo series, Yellow Moon finds New Orleans' preeminent voodoo practitioner hunting an African vampire -a wazimamoto. Marie Levant is tired of seeing corpses drained of blood arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. It'll take all her skills to expel the deadly spirit.
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""None but the righteous" is a southern gothic fever dream, a voodoo-laced journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Set adrift when his hometown of New Orleans is ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Ham struggles for belonging between the Atlanta home ofa childhood friend and the rural Alabama home of the mother of his child. As he reckons with his impending fatherhood, Ham navigates his new circumstances under the guidance of the spirit of St. Martin...
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Cuban voodoo, a vice lord, and a woman with power over death itself—Dr. Owen Orient picked a lethal time to visit Miami
Cut off from his friends, students, and lover while on the run from the CIA and a powerful voodoo cult—just another day in the life of Dr. Owen Orient, psychic investigator.
When the ink on his fake ID dries, Orient finds himself in sultry Miami working at a small pharmacy in a rundown...
Cut off from his friends, students, and lover while on the run from the CIA and a powerful voodoo cult—just another day in the life of Dr. Owen Orient, psychic investigator.
When the ink on his fake ID dries, Orient finds himself in sultry Miami working at a small pharmacy in a rundown...
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A New Orleans detective’s investigation of a fellow cop’s murder reveals surprises in this mystery from the USA Today–bestselling author of Thrill Kill.
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
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"Conceived in love and possibility, Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. No one knows that Bonaventure's silence is filled with resonance-- a miraculous gift of rarified hearing that encompasses the Universe of Every Single Sound. Growing up in the big house on Christopher Street in Bayou Cymbaline, Bonaventure can hear flowers grow, a thousand shades of blue, and the miniature tempests that...
10) Casting bones
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Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer...
11) Damned
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Magnus Blackwell novel volume 1
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English
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Discover how it all began -- read BLACKWELL: the prequel -- ASIN: B01M7T4NQT SOME MONSTERS NEVER DIE Over a hundred years after the death of Magnus Blackwell, Altmover Manor sits abandoned. Lexie Arden and her fiancé, Will Bennet, are determined to rescue the neglected Mount Desert Island landmark. They want to make Altmover Manor their home. But Magnus has other plans. A spirit bound to his former residence, Magnus finds himself inexplicably drawn...
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Twisted tale volume 13
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First hardcover edition.
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"Sometimes life in the Big Easy is tough. No one knows that better than Tiana, though she also believes that hard work can go a long way. But when the notorious Dr. Facilier backs her into a corner, she has no choice but to accept an offer that will alter the course of her life in an instant. Soon Tiana finds herself in a new reality where all her deepest desires are realized: she finally gets her restaurant, her friends are safe and sound, and most...
14) Royal Street
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[2012]
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First edition.
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Working for a powerful New Orleans wizard who protects the city from preternatural forces, junior wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco struggles to outmaneuver sinister beings and find her missing mentor when Hurricane Katrina crumbles the borders between the city and the Otherworld.
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[2017]
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"Takes place primarily during carnival in 1938 in the Haitian village of Jacmel. A beautiful young French woman, Hadriana, is about to marry a Haitian boy from a prominent family. But on the morning of the wedding, Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion and collapses at the altar. Transformed into a zombie, her wedding becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town, revived by an evil sorcerer, then disappears into popular legend. Set against a backdrop...
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