Veronica G Henry
Author
Series
Mambo Reina novels volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors. After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman...
Author
Series
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A Vodou priestess turned amateur detective, Mambo Reina, while doing her benevolent work as a healer, investigates a ritualistic murder that leads her into a conspiracy exploiting vulnerable youth, forcing her to hone her ever-evolving skills to solve a mystery that reaches further than she imagined.
3) Bacchanal
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she's a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza's ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge. Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger...
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Disgraced fire chief Syrah Carthan, when another devastating wildfire breaks out, is pulled back into action, discovers an underground secret society that could save or destroy the world, forcing her to make a choice between human loyalty and preserving the delicate balance of nature.