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Publication Date:  February 18, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Culinary Mystery Publisher:  Little Brown & Co Length:  401 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis A New Orleans police detective by day and celebrity food truck chef by night, Caleb Rooney has a new title -- Louisiana's Most Wanted -- in this shocking thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author. In the Carnival days leading up Mardi Gras, Detective Caleb Rooney comes under investigation for a murder he is accused of committing in the line of duty -- as a Major Crimes detective for the New Orleans Police Department. Has his sideline at the Killer Chef food truck given him a taste for murder? While fighting the charges against him, Rooney makes a pair of...

Title:   The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice Publisher: Gallery Books 336 pages Genre: horror I received an advanced e-copy of this book through netgalley.com It is due to be released October 15, 2013. Synopsis:  It’s been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred…and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction…and who alone knows the source of her very bizarre—and very deadly—abilities: an isolated strip of swampland called Elysium. An accomplished surgeon, Niquette’s father dreamed of transforming the dense acreage surrounded by murky waters into a palatial compound befitting the name his beloved wife gave to it, Elysium: “the final resting place ...

Title: The Keepers by Heather Graham Publisher: Harlequin 288 pages Genre : Paranormal Romance This title will be released 10-1-10 - I received this as an advanced galley copy from the publisher. Synopsis: At the core of New Orleans lie the otherworldly vampires and shape-shifters that hide in plain sight among mankind. As one of the Keepers, an elite group possessing superior skill and strength, Fiona MacDonald knows her duty is to secure balance in a place where one vampire’s bite could ignite a war between societies. When Detective Jagger DeFarge is called in at the discovery of a young woman’s body, drained of blood in a cemetery, both the specially talented detective and Fiona must join uneasy forces. Jagger will stop at nothing to find the murderer— including working in close quarters with the sensual and suspicious Fiona. As more young women die, it becomes clear that this isn’t the work of an ordinary vampire. No one is safe. But when the killer’s attention turns ...