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- Location(s): Galveston, Louisiana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1980s
Roy Cady is by his own admission ‘a bad man’. With a snow flurry of cancer in his lungs and no one to live for, he’s a walking time-bomb of violence. Following a fling with his boss’s lover, he’s...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s, 1995
New Orleans Fang Fest, 1995. Mina’s having a summer to die for. 17-year-old Mina, from England, arrives in New Orleans to visit her estranged sister, Libby. After growing up in the town that inspired Dracula, Mina loves nothing more...
- Location(s): Managua, New Orleans, Nicaragua
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
When Maria returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather’s funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother’s past. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother inaction, once a storied revolutionary,...
- Location(s): Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Later 1970s
In The Long Count, the first book of JM Gulvin’s masterful new crime series, we meet Ranger John Quarrie as he is called to the scene of an apparent suicide by a fellow war veteran. Although the local police want...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1833
Benjamin January, an African American musician tries to help a woman who has gone into a ball to confront her late husband’s mistress. When the mistress is found murdered, he is scapegoated for the murder and must work to...
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1919
New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes . . . New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer – The Axeman – stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him . ....
- Location(s): New Orleans
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ava, 14 years old and totally on her own, has still not fully processed her mother’s death when she finds herself on a train heading to New Orleans, going to stay with Lane, her grandmother whom she’s never met....
- Location(s): Louisiana, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Never published during his lifetime, John Kennedy Toole’s masterful comic novel takes its title, as well asfrom Jonathan Swift A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern – this...
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Location(s): Louisiana, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1970s/80s
These fictional short stories capture the true experiences of the hardships of coming to America. With great sensitivity, Robert Olen Butler introduces us to the colorful lives of Vietnamese immigrants in Louisiana.
- Location(s): Louisiana
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Various
Meet four generations of the Duvalier family, for whom sugar cane is both their blessing and their curse. From patriarch Carter, who perishes before the novel begins after being hit in the head by an exploding manhole cover, and...
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