DescriptionChicago homicide detective Kate Delaney fiercely defends victims - which is why, despite death threats, she's testifying to a federal grand jury about local police corruption. It's also why she's infuriated by the New Orleans police department's blase at…
DescriptionCast off on a raft with a runaway slave down the great Mississippi and a boy who couldn't dream of a greater adventure. With each bend of the river, each town, comes a chance encounter, perhaps with a king or duke wrapped in the schemes of scoundrels or a young girl caught amidst a family feud. On a journey with a friend dreaming of freedom, it's full of mischief, full of fun, and the adventures of a lifetime. For excellent supplemental information about this work, don't miss The SparkNotes Guide to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
DescriptionFour years have passed since J.D. Damascus lost his wife and two children to the notorious French Quarter killer. The vicious slaying did not go unpunished, but J.D. is certain the wrong man was convicted. Once the most powerful district attorney in New Orleans, J.D. is now a down-and-out lawyer, barely scraping by. When Holly Jones, a young woman who recently escaped the dangerous red-light district, alerts him that a new killing spree has begun, J.D. knows that the time has come to put an end to the madness. J.D. and Holly must join forces to rid the streets of the French Quarter killer, but each of them is haunted by secrets, some forgivable, some not, that could jeopardize their hunt.
DescriptionEdgar Award-winning author Julie Smith's sequel to New Orleans Mourning follows the rising career of police officer Skip Langdon. Recently promoted to detective, she finds herself chasing a killer who is preying on members of New Orleans' various 1…
DescriptionQPBC New Voices Award-winner Jervey Tervalon authors scintillating works of African-American fiction. Spellbinding, luminous, and richly atmospheric, Dead Above Ground tells the story of the wealthy Du Champs family of New Orleans. Helen, the matriarch, rules over her daughters Adele and Lita with an iron will. But Adele has fallen in love with smooth operator Lucien, who, unbeknownst to her, means to settle a decades-old score with her mother.
DescriptionIn the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their "owners, " but confined by their color to a life of political non-existence and social subordination. Still, an a…
DescriptionEdna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at the cross road of her life. She is passionate and artistic, but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small costal retreat. Here she is enveloped in a small circle of friends where she can begin to throw off the strictures and moires of the 1890s bourgeoisie. Stepwise Edna renounces her obligations, takes a lover, and is propelled in a course that frees, consumes, and eventually destroys her. In what was to be her last novel, Kate Chopin shocked the readers of her day, by showing a woman fulfilled by throwing off the ties of marriage and children.
DescriptionInternational adventure awaits the lovely and daring Tracy Whitney, a New Orleans computer technician, when she vows to avenge the untouchable crime lords who ruined her mother's life. The idealistic Tracy embarks on a series of dazzling escapades that carry her off to London, Paris, Madrid, and Amsterdam. Renowned actor Roger Moore, of James Bond fame, narrates this colorful, romantic, suspense-filled story.
DescriptionLike his FBI-agent brother Nick, Theo Buchanan is devoted to his crime-fighting career. Only Theo works the other side of the desk as an esteemed Justice Department attorney. At a gala ceremony in New Orleans, he is suddenly struck ill and is rushed to a…
DescriptionThis Edgar Award-winning work offers a revealing glimpse into the hidden world of New Orleans high society and an intricately plotted murder mystery. The novel introduces rookie cop Skip Langdon, as she investigates a seamy Mardi Gras murder. Everyone…
