Dark Shadows on the Bayou
Dark Shadows on the Bayou

Author: Patricia Pomeroy Tanner

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781493566938

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In 1967, as Hope King hovers over her husband, Jerome, he implores her, with dying breath, to flee New Orleans. The journey is one of terror. She hides deep in a Louisiana bayou...It is now 2007 and Grandma Hope (mama') has acquired three Cajun restaurants. Her granddaughter, Hope Ann Marcel, helps her run them. Glenn King shows up and claims to be Hope Ann's cousin. Now Mama' is forced to to tell Hope Ann about her grandfather Jerome. She didn't know, back then, he was an under boss for the Galliano crime family. Jerome was the first one to get killed, when the gang war started. Next Matthew Mason visits and tells them he is an officer with a special crime force. He takes an old ledger Mama' gives him. In the back is a code. Matt and Hope Ann go to New Orleans to try to solve the mystery. They have exciting adventures. There is a little romance intertwined with the intrigue.

Dark Shadows Red Bayou
Dark Shadows Red Bayou

Author: John Atkinson

Publisher: il piccolo editions

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9780981034478

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Somebody is killing prostitutes in the swamp. To Sheriff Coles Bleu, the job was everything; never mind the formalities of protocol. By his rules, he always got the bad guys. His office achieved the highest crime-solving rate in Louisiana. Now, that record was being threatened. John Atkinson, who brought us the unforgettable Johnnyboy in his powerful debut novel Timekeeper (2007), returns with three, rough-cut, equally memorable characters in the first book to be published under Fisher King's new il piccolo imprint.

Bayou Bloodline
Bayou Bloodline

Author: Suzanna Myatt Harvill

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-12-06

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1663213038

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Rachelle Toussaint’s world is turned upside down when her twin brother, Michie, dies from a fall from a balcony, forcing her to return home to New Orleans and take control of the family’s cruise line. Rachelle does not believe her brother’s death was an accident or a suicide. She believes he was murdered...and the prime suspects reside under the roof of the family’s opulent, historic mansion...Rachelle’s vicious stepmother and two stepsisters. The spice in the gumbo is the pregnant stepsister Amanda’s engagement to Charles-Michel Toussaint. However, in accordance with the family will, the child she carries cannot inherit the family fortune. The fortune can be inherited only through the legitimate bloodline...in this case, Rachelle. Michie had physical and mental problems resulting from the time he spent in the Army as a captive in the Middle East, and Rachelle wonders if Amanda’s child actually belonged to Michie. Handsome and charming Lieutenant Marcus Laborde is in charge of the investigation and is captivated by the beautiful Rachelle. His efforts to discover how Michie died are sidetracked by a series of slaughters of young prostitutes, victims of a slaver network. Headstrong Rachelle finds the police procedures too slow. Forensics proves Michie was under the influence of exotic drugs when he died. Rachelle learns the drugs may have come from the Shadow Bayou Voodoo traiteur Mirabelle Lebeau. Rachelle forms an unlikely alliance with Mirabelle to solve the mystery of her brother’s death and suspects her cruise line is being as a pipeline for the slavers to move women about the country. Rachelle fears family members may be involved with the slavers, and her snooping puts her own life in danger. As Rachelle wades deeper into the family swamp, long dead secrets emerge, and she discovers the people she trusted are capable of heinous crimes.

Shadows on the Bayou
Shadows on the Bayou

Author: Patricia Vaughn

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780671520052

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Beautiful Sylvia Dupont had one destiny--to become the mistress of a rich Creole gentleman. She was willing to accept her fate until the irresistible Justin Reynaud crossed her path. But the past, not so easily escaped, reached out to repossess Sylvia, sweeping her into a desperate struggle between the chains of tradition and one glorious chance to love.

Dark Bayou
Dark Bayou

Author: Nancy K. Duplechain

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-12

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0557755611

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When Leigh Benoit returns home to Louisiana for the funeral of her brother and his wife, she becomes increasingly concerned about the welfare of her orphaned niece, Lyla. She is prompted by her grandmother, Clothilde, to move back to take care of her. Leigh has no desire to take on any responsibility, and being home again brings back painful memories. At the funeral, Leigh's childhood friend, Detective Lucas Castille, tells her the mysterious details of the accident that killed her brother and his wife. Lucas' young son has dreams of a Dark Man who wishes to harm Lyla. Leigh begins to have similar dreams. She struggles with her rational mind but vows to protect her niece. Soon, she finds out there is more to the story and more to her grandmother than she thought.

Shadows on the Bayou
Shadows on the Bayou

Author: Deborah A. Ledet

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2019-07-07

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1973664534

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Come explore the bayou land with a young boy who has love and gratitude for his family. Garrett loves to visit the cane fields with his Paw-Paw, and walk to the bayou to see Big Al, the alligator. Today he and his grandfather will go to the fields before dawn. And, oh, what are those shadows Garrett sees in the cane, in the dim morning sunrise?

Shadow Bayou
Shadow Bayou

Author: Suzanna Myatt Harvill

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1532081197

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Laurette St. Cyr is the new heiress to Shadow Cove Plantation, inherited from the father she thought dead for twenty years. She arrives in a place called Shadow Bayou outside New Orleans to claim her new home but is beset by a vipers’ nest of relatives determined to keep her from staying. They will stop at nothing, murder included, to drive Laurette from Louisiana. Before each planned attack, ghostly visitations from a long-dead ancestor warn Laurette of impending danger, which she initially discounts. Only the family lawyer and Laurette’s former nanny seem trustworthy, but she learns even those people harbor secrets from the past—her past. Laurette is courted by the handsome sheriff, Cheyne Delacroix, and his wealthy cousin, Courtland, but soon learns Cheyne was involved in a mysterious death. Now, she has no one to trust. Laurette’s life swirls in a gumbo of lies, Voodoo, and deceit, but she is determined to lay claim to the property that is rightfully hers ... or is it?

Dark Bayou
Dark Bayou

Author: Alan G. Gauthreaux

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1476622965

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This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary records and, where available, the recollections of those who provide a coherent version of the facts, these mesmerizing tales detail some of the more gruesome episodes: the rise of the first Mafia godfather in the United States; the murder of two New Orleans police chiefs; the brutal murder of a famous New Orleans madam; the story of a respectable young woman who "accidentally" poisoned her younger sister and is a suspect in other family deaths; the ritual killing of blacks in southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas; the mysterious death of a young housewife which still generates debate; and the demise of a local celebrity who believed in his own invincibility.