Book Reviews and a Little More…
From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
Read moreLouis Pinell, the recently apprehended “Icepick Prowler,” freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago — but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger’s true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous…and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the p.i. is determined to avenge.
Read moreSpiked with a “frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy” (Publishers Weekly), this “deliciously fiendish…increasingly riotous series” (Dallas Morning News) sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.
Read moreKick-ass bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan has crossed forbidden lines, taken demonic hits, and still stands. But the death of her lover struck her harder than she ever thought possible. She won’t rest until his murder is solved . . . and avenged.
But a new predator is moving to the apex of the Inderlander food chain—and now Rachel’s past is coming back to haunt her.
Literally.
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