En 1872, Nueva Orleans es una ciudad gobernada por los muertos. Pero para Celine Rousseau, de diecisiete anos, Nueva Orleans es un refugio seguro despues de verse obligada a huir de su vida como modista en Paris. Adoptada por las hermanas del convento de las Ursulinas en medio de la temporada de carnaval, Celine se deja cautivar rapidamente por la vibrante ciudad, desde su musica hasta sus elegantes veladas e incluso su peligro. Se enreda en el deslumbrante...

Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace - a nun leapt to her death after participating in a routine exorcism. But when a priest and a Vatican commissario turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Poldi will need all the help she can get to clear her name, but her nephew has been distracted by a love affair, and her local friends seem to be avoiding her. Even Vito Montana balks when Poldi discovers...

In 1930 Illinois, an enforcer for the local mob boss goes on a spree of vengence with his son after his wife and younger child are murdered.

Returning home to Paris after a visit to her husband's family in Scotland, Catherine LeVendeur must use all her sleuthing skills, when her estranged sister, Agnes, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her new husband.

"A series of murders and a set of mysterious symbols spell out danger for Sherlock and John in their latest case"--Page [4] of cover.

"With the Confederate Army firing on Fort Sumter, the Civil War has begun -- and an invasion of Washington, D.C., from Secessionist Virginia seems imminent. As the population evacuates, the President is in desperate need of men to defend the capital. Lincoln's trusted aide, Adam Speed Quinn, and Quinn's old friend from the Bloody Kansas conflict, Senator Jim Lane, hastily assemble a motley crew of just over a hundred men and garrison them in the East...

Vampire, Jack Fleming, tries to find the killer of a young artist.

"Peter, Mary, and Hank journey to the pyramid-studded desert of ancient Egypt. When the trio become friends with Pharaoh's daughter, they witness first-hand as Moses petitions Pharaoh for the Israelites' freedom. Plagues wreak havoc as the group races to decode the scroll, gets chased by a panther, and battles Pharaoh's cunning advisor, the Great Magician"--

A woman doctor is murdered in Los Angeles, her death predicted by the mumbling of a killer while in a drugged state. But the killer is locked in an asylum, he therefore must have an accomplice on the outside. Forensic psychologist Alex Delaware investigates.