Blogs in February 2022

Amaretto Amber (Franki Amato Mysteries #3) 2nd February 2022

Private investigator Franki Amato has just turned thirty, and she feels anything but festive. For starters, she can’t have cake because she’s given up sweets, and one of her teeth is torturing her. To add insult to birthday injury,...

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Prosecco Pink (Franki Amato Mysteries #2) 2nd February 2022

For PI Franki Amato, New Orleans is anything but The Big Easy. Her best friend and employer has assigned her an unsettling investigation—the murder of a gorgeous cosmetics CEO at an allegedly haunted plantation. Adding to Franki’s stress, her...

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The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories 15th June 2021

A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a Shadow Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden...

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THE SMALLEST CREATURES 15th May 2021

A young man agrees to drive an older woman and her granddaughter from New Orleans to her trailer in Nashville – a road trip that goes from bad to worse. Exhausted from over-work and suffering from the humidity of...

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The House Uptown 7th April 2021

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....

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