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Private eye Anne Lockhart has been her own client since her sister disappeared. A photograph leads her to New Orleans and jazz club musician John Rodolfo. With his haunting music and irresistible allure, Anne finds herself falling under his spell. But questions arise in the shadows and lore of the French Quarter, mysteries that speak to something sinister and not strictly human. What makes the latest in her Nightcreature series (
Midnight Moon, 2006;
Crescent Moon, 2006) stand out is how Handeland paints such a vivid portrait of the Big Easy and its inhabitants. The city itself is a character, not unlike its real-life counterpart, and the characters, human or wolf, are some of the sultriest, most wicked, and amazingly disturbing beings to play across the pages of a romantic suspense novel. Her gift to skillfully repel and attract commands the reader's attention to the very end and will lure genre readers enamored of paranormal romance or mysteries.
Nina DavisCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Mass Market Paperback
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Product Description
Over a city of wicked pleasures and dangerous passions. Denizens of the Big Easy know its steamy nights can hide any number of sins and secrets. Private-eye Anne Lockhart is counting on it. Her life has been on hold ever since her sister Katie disappeared without a trace, but when a clue leads Anne to a jazz club in the French Quarter everything changes. Rising Moon's proprietor, John Rodolfo, is mysterious in his own right, a gifted musician who reaches deep into Anne's soul and whose mere presence taps into desires she can't afford to indulge - there's a bad moon on the rise.By going undercover at the Rising Moon, Anne can get close to people who know what goes on after dark - people like John, whose nocturnal disappearances are more than a little suspicious. But unlocking John's secrets is harder than Anne had anticipated. What's far too easy is surrendering to him. And now someone - or something - is stalking the innocent and the guilty, and waiting for Anne's next move. 'Fresh, fun, and fabulous! Lori Handeland is an exciting voice in paranormal suspense' - Sherrilyn Kenyon, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Dark Side of the Moon".