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When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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Landry family series volume 5
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A twilight gloom settles in Gabriels soul, until a hunting party brings handsome gentle, Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, she does not heed the warning voice: he may bring more grief than she can bear.
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When her adoptive father suffers a life-threatening heart attack, Schyler Crandall returns to her hometown of Heaven, Louisiana, after a six-year absence. It isn't just the heat that's sizzling in Heaven. Schyler's sister hates her enough to do her harm; her father's logging empire is about to go under; her beloved home, Belle Terre, may be lost; and Cash Boudreaux threatens Schyler's heart with a sensual pull that's impossible to resist. Unfortunately...
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Ya-Yas volume 1
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Siddalee Walker, a successful New York theater director, takes turns with her family in telling the story of their Louisiana upbringing, their experiences in Our Lady of the Divine Compassion parochial school, and the anguishes and blessings of childhood.
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Bishop special crimes unit volume 5
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Reluctant psychic Nell Gallagher never planned to return home, especially not to settle the affairs of her father, or to help solve the string of murders that has the local sheriff scratching his head.
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"Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana's Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them--sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff--left the place as soon as they could. Yet Ginny Polk chose to come back to work as a prison cook. Yet she has never seen them as monsters, not even the ones sentenced to execution. That's why, among her duties, Ginny has taken on a special responsibility: preparing their last meals."-- Provided...
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Miss Fortune mysteries volume 10
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Behind the wheel of her hopped-up Blazer, Ida Belle is the queen of the back roads. But when someone tries to kill Hot Rod and steals only black SUVs from his shop, Fortune worries that excessive horsepower is the least of the trouble that comes along with her friend's new ride. When it becomes clear that the car thieves didn't get what they were looking for the first time around, Ida Belle's vehicle becomes their next target. Fortune Redding and...
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The debut novel everyone is talking about... "The last page is as satisfying as the first.” Kathryn Stockett. "I really loved this book... I can't praise it enough.” Anne Rice. "It's a book to read and reread, one that will only get better with time.” Tom Franklin. It was the summer everything changed. My Sunshine Away unfolds in a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish,...
10) Dangerous mercy
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Secrets of Roux River Bayou volume 2
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When eighty-six-year-old 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 to do odd jobs and landscaping, she delights in the fledgling friendships she's developed and the idea that she is helping these men get back on their feet. Then a series of murders in Les Barbes casts a pall over the town, and one of Adele's handymen becomes a...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 3
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"Dave Robicheaux, ex-New Orleans policeman whose wife was killed by drug lords, lives quietly in New Iberia, running a bait and tackle shop and taking care of Alafair, the little Central American girl he and his wife rescued from the Gulf after a plane crash. Then his friend and college roommate comes to him for help, and Dave is thrown into the violent world of professional killers and the mafia, as he follows a trail to Montana to get out of a murder...
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Ya-Yas volume 2
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When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a 'tap-dancing child abuser'. Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called Divine Secrets of...
13) Red River
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Tademy family chronicles volume 2
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"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
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Miss Fortune mysteries volume 15
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2019
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Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return. She immediately launched into her same old scams, picking off Sinful residents with ease before disappearing again as quickly as she'd appeared. When an accident at the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Run uncovers her body,...
16) Swamp spies
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Things have reached a critical point in the Middle East. Carter agreed to serve as a consultant for his old Force Recon unit but for reasons unknown to his friends and family, jumped from the command center and into the field. Now he's MIA, and Fortune is the only one who can put together a rescue mission that has any chance of being successful. But will her skills and connections be enough? Most Sinful residents are unaware of Carter's crisis and...
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Dave Robicheaux novels volume 2
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"Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana's bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life -- and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he's known since childhood; Rocque's hungry Cajun wife;...
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Sissy LeBlanc is fed up with life in Gentry, Louisiana, and dreams that a handsome young man will sweep her off her feet and rescue her from her dreary existance, but she has always vowed to stay faithful to her husband, which is why, up until now, it has only been a fantasy, but when her high school sweetheart comes back to town, her iron resolve turns to dust.
19) Body of evidence
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Bayou books (Stella Cameron) volume 6
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Emma Lachance is taken by surprise when she runs into her old flame, Finn Duhon, at a construction site in Pointe Judah, Louisiana. But the last thing she expects to find is the corpse of her friend, a local journalist whose relentlessly scathing articles have enraged every lawmaker and opportunist in town, including the mayor -- Emma's husband.
20) Ruby
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Landry family series volume 1
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An innocent bayou girl is lost to New Orleans in this provocative novel by one of the most popular storytellers of all time. The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken grandpere, Jack. Grateful for what she has, Ruby's life is filled with hope and promise, especially when her attraction to handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a wonderful love affair. But when Paul's...
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