Casting bones
By: Don Bruns
Edition: First world edition.
Series: A Quentin Archer mystery -- 1
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780727886361; 9781847517326
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Vodou; Detective and mystery stories; Investigation; Serial murders; Murder; Fiction
Description: Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer uncovers some troubling facts about the late judge's past. But it's only when he encounters a beautiful young voodoo practitioner that he starts to make headway in the investigation. Voodoo queen Solange Cordray volunteers at the dementia centre where her mother lives. When she starts reading the mind of one of her patients, she learns that a secretive organization known as Krewe Charbonerrie may be behind the murder of the judge. And the second murder. And the third ...