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New Orleans romantic suspense stories
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1) Hot blooded
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Against the sultry backdrop of New Orleans, Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya take on their first case together in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson's chilling novel of a serial killer's obsessive vengeance...
As host of New Orleans' radio talk show Midnight Confessions, Dr. Samantha Leeds is a trusted confidante to all kinds of troubled souls. But the call that comes to her own home one night is different—menacing,
...2) Cold blooded
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Psychic Olivia Bechet witnesses a murder in her sleep. When she witnesses the second murder, she reports it to the police, but jaded detective Rick Bentz doesn't believe her. Her next dream shows her the face of the serial killer's next victim, who is closer than she ever imagined.
3) Shiver
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Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya must team up with the prime suspect in a murder case to catch a serial killer who is keeping New Orleans in the grip of fear, an investigation that leads them to an abandoned asylum where unspeakable evil awaits them.
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In the follow-up to Shiver (2006), photographer Abby Chastain finds she may have a half-sister in Eve Renner, the adopted daughter of Dr. Terrence Renner, former head psychiatrist at Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, a shuttered asylum near (pre-Katrina) New Orleans. When "the Reviver," a tattoo-loving psychopath intent on revenge almost kills Eve, the amnesia-plagued Eve fears Cole Dennis, her lawyer boyfriend, might be the monster, since she...
5) Lost souls
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True crime writer Kristi Benz, searching for the one case that will take her to the top, gets her wish when she enrolls at All Saints College to investigate the brutal murders of three troubled girls, all of whom were found with the blood drained from their bodies.
6) Malice
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Former LAPD detective Rick Bentz has rebuilt his life with a happy marriage and new career with the New Orleans police 12 years after divorcing his unfaithful first wife, Jennifer, who subsequently died in a car crash. After "a freak accident in a lightning storm" that left him temporarily paralyzed, Rick starts seeing Jennifer's ghost. When Rick receives an anonymous package mailed from Culver City, Calif., containing recent photos of a woman resembling...
7) Devious
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The crime scene at St. Marguerite's cathedral in New Orleans is shocking, even to seasoned detectives like Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya. A novice nun named Sister Camille has been found dressed in a yellowed bridal gown and viciously garroted, her body covered with an altar cloth. Convinced the police aren't doing enough, Camille's sister, Valerie Houston, begins to investigate. But the deeper Val's inquiries go, the more twisted the case becomes....
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It should be the best day of their lives. Too bad they never get to see it. On the cusp of their twenty-first birthday, he strikes. His victims are always twins, their ritualistic murders planned in exquisite detail, down to the moment when they breathe their last together... A possibly innocent man is in prison, and Brianna Hayward needs to convince the New Orleans police. Not just to free her cousin, but to save others who will suffer until the...
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"There are killers so savage, so twisted, that they leave a mark not just on their victims, but on everyone who crosses their path. For Detectives Bentz and Montoya, Father John, a fake priest who used the sharpened beads of a rosary to strangle prostitutes, is one such monster. Bentz thought he'd ended that horror years ago when he killed Father John deep in the swamp. But now there are chilling signs he may have been wrong. A new victim has surfaced,...
