City of Masks: A Cree Black Novel
If it's New Orleans and the novel's main characters have been dead for  years but are still walking around terrorizing people, it must be an Anne Rice  adventure. But it isn't--it's the first in a new series starring a fascinating  heroine, Seattle parapsychologist Cree Black, whose own murky past and special  gifts make her the perfect choice to investigate a haunted house in the Garden  District and the family that's slowly being scared to death. Lila Beauforte has  moved back into her ancestral home, now inhabited by ghosts who seem bent on  driving her out. Cree, her senses more attuned to the presence of revenants than  flesh-and-blood bad guys, shakes enough closets in Beauforte House to bring the  skeletons out, solve mysteries of the past as well as the present, and fall in  love with an equally appealing if more traditional investigator of the  unconscious who may be able to help her free herself from her own emotional  prison. She's a smart, vulnerable, and attractive character in an unearthly and  unusual thriller that starts off a promising new series with a howl and presages  a long run on the bestseller list.--Jane Adams--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.