There was no way I was going to enjoy this book. When I began reading it, all I could focus on were the excessive number of adjectives that jumped off the page at me. I found myself reading them out loud to my husband and laughing. I had almost decided to give up on it after the first chapter. Bu...
Climbing Louisiana family trees can be murder! Nick Herald, a professional genealogist working in New Orleans, is hired to search for Louisiana relatives of an elderly man, a Holocaust survivor. After finding the old man murdered, Nick realizes that this is no ordinary case of innocent genealogic...
Professional genealogist Nick Herald must rescue a Louisiana Indian tribe's future from a deadly past! Big trouble plagues rural central Louisiana when the small tribe of nearly assimilated Katogoula Indians unexpectedly receives federal recognition. In a cruel irony, will good fortune mean the d...
13 Nick ate breakfast in an airy sun-filled, antique-crammed room downstairs, in the company of ficuses, palms, and about thirty Japanese tourists videotaping each other eating such unfamiliar Louisiana fare as grits and grillades, eggs Benedict, and beignets. Sharla, fortunately, was absent. I s...
Louisiana fall was a fickle creature, ever promising itself to winter as it dallied with summer. Tommy had sounded his pickup’s horn a few times before Nick awoke on the couch that backed up to the window of “Annie Oakley.” His watch told him he was fifteen minutes late for his eight A.M. appoint...
Some of them shelved books with quivering chins; others were overtaken by sobbing in the middle of their tasks; a few sat at their desks, dazed. Nowell himself, Nick learned from the stoic and somber young man in the Rare Documents Room, was at home, recuperating. Had they felt this broken up by ...