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Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords...

Danielle Ross investigates two murders and comes face to face with the greed and treachery of the New Orleans underworld.

In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder.

Aidan Flynn, a private investigator and eldest of the Flynn brothers--who have inherited a New Orleans plantation--scoffs at the haunted-house rumors, especially since Kendall Montgomery, a tarot card reader who has been living in the mansion, is the one to tell him the tale of a woman in white. But when he finds human bones, Aidan delves into the dark history of the plantation. Forced together to uncover the truth, Aidan and Kendall realize that...

"April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on Benjamin for help. To do so, he must abandon the safe...

In New Orleans, lesbian PI Micky Knight is asked by a woman friend to retrieve compromising photographs which a man is using to blackmail her. The case leads Knight to the discovery of a child pornography operation.

Increasingly disturbed by her inability to uncover the true identity of an old friend, New Orleans private investigator and poet Talba Wallis takes on a suspicious new client and encounters an ugly secret in the small town of Clayton, Louisiana.

"Micky Knight, a hard-hitting, touch-talking dyke detective, has been hired to provide security for a party at an old country club. It should have been easy - a perfect Spring evening, mild weather, and women everywhere. Suddenly another woman shows up - brutally murdered, left to die in the surrounding woods. Why murder crash this perfect party? The police find a convenient suspect when the body of yet another victim is found in the clinic of Dr....