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Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For three years, women have been disappearing--and eventually turning up dead in the small bayou town of St. Augustine, Louisiana. Police detective Beau Hebert is the only one who seems to care, but with every witness quickly silenced and a corrupt police department set on keeping the cases unsolved, Beau's investigation stalls at every turn. With nobody else to trust, Beau calls in a favor from his friend on the FBI's Mobile Response Team. While...
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 8
Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Description
Defending an African American farm family from local mobsters who want their land, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux travels from his native New Orleans to Central America in pursuit of a notorious gambler and hit man
Author
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his business partners, a dying Chef Julien decides to publish his secret recipes, and his daughter Chloe must search for the source of her father's seasonings while avoiding trouble from the opposition.
7) Creole belle
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novel volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book begins where the last book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass Rainbow, ended. Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song "Creole Belle" on it. Then she disappears. Dave becomes obsessed with the song and the memory of Tee Jolie and goes in search of her sister, who later turns up inside a block of ice floating in the Gulf. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Robicheaux volume 17
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Attorney Jill Clark must discover whether her client, Celia Shepherd, is sincere in her Christian faith, or using it as a ploy to deflect suspicion from herself in her husband's murder.
10) Private justice
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newpointe 911 series
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads. Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up. But...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux's coastal Louisiana town of Boutin suffers a catastrophic flood that might be too much for her community to overcome, but she is determined to keep both Boutin and its indomitable spirit alive.
13) Every dead thing
Author
Series
Detective Charlie Parker volume 1
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the murders of his wife and daughter, NYPD detective Charlie Parker sets himself up as bait in a trap, when the search for a missing woman leads him to the man who had devastated his family, a vicious serial killer known as the Traveling Man
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with another instant Southern classic: a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be."--
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux volume Book 21
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to the next. Images of ghosts pepper his reality. Robicheaux's only beacon remains serving as a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana. It's in that capacity that Robicheaux crosses paths with powerful mob boss, Tony Nemo. Tony has a Civil War sword he'd...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana, and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young, restless Alabama teacher searching for a sense of purpose accepts a position at a tiny Louisiana bayou school, where a lonely Cajun fisherman, a tight-knit community, and a legendary white alligator will change her life forever"--
Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in tiny Bernadette, Louisiana deep in bayou country to escape the familiarity of her Alabama home. Though suspicious of outsiders, most of the people come to appreciate the...
18) Dangerous mercy
Author
Series
Secrets of Roux River Bayou volume 2
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This intense psychological thriller is the second book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou series from best-selling author Kathy Herman. When elderly Adele Woodmore moves to Les Barbes to be near the Broussards, she wants nothing more than a comfortable, quiet life. Employing men from Father Vince's halfway house for the homeless to do odd jobs, she takes an interest in their lives and is delighted to be helping them get back on their feet. Now a series...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Omnibus edition.
Physical Desc
x, 627 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the "ultimate voice of women's fiction."* Now you can revisit the emergence of her signature style in two of her earliest novels--completely revised and together in one volume for the first time. In the Shadow of the Moon -- When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have...
Author
Series
A Dave Robicheaux novel volume 22
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...