What Fiction are you reading this week, April 28, 2024?

[yellowdogintexas]

15. I have left the culinary tour of England and am now in New Orleans

with Wyatt Thomas, Eric WIlder's Paranormal Investigator

River Road: a totally irresistible and grippingly addictive paranormal crime thriller (French Quarter Mystery Book 5)
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an bizarre death ceremony in a revamped Canal Street movie theater. The man gives Wyatt a bag of cash and a single clue: a solid gold Krewe of Rex, 1948 Mardi Gras doubloon. His only request is for Wyatt to find the person or persons who murdered his mother.

The case isn't simply cold, it's 50-years old. When his client is shot dead on the way out the door, Wyatt must go into hiding, solve both murders, or suffer the same fate. The story hurtles along at a breakneck speed, with a number of harrowing events.

Wyatt is a disbarred attorney turned PI who is also a recovering alcoholic. There are a number of recurring characters - a detective, a DA, his bartender landlord and assorted practitioners of voodoo and its related religions. However the real main character is New Orleans itself.

I love this series (and I am a total sucker for anything set in New Orleans). It is a great mix of politics, murder, voo doo, devil worship and some great characters. Quite by accident I broke one of my cardinal rules of series reading - going out of order! The first book I encountered was book six or seven as a free book; the sample was so intriguing I could not wait for book one and had to dive into it immediately. Eventually I was able to snag the remaining books and am indulging myself in them when I am in a certain mood. (New Orleans frame of mind?)