Smack in the middle of the summer, detective Skip Langdon finds herself investigating the murder of the universally beloved producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Then the victim's sixteen-year-old sister disappears, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't f the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is., Skip trails an elusive killer through the delirium of a city caught up in JazzFest, the world's most famous music bash. This is the third book in the Skip Langdon mystery series.

While her friends are making mad cash and getting massages at their dot-com jobs, Amy Gray quits her low-status publishing position to realize her girlhood dream of being a private investigator. Joining a small Manhattan agency, she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of "con men, lunatics, narcissists, polygamists, sociopaths, felons, petty thieves, and pathological liars"--a description almost as apt for the men in her social life as for her on-the-job subjects. Working with a gang of misfit colleagues (a former zookeeper, a one-time child star, an avant-garde philosopher, and other eccentrics), Amy discovers even more about herself as she detects uncanny parallels between her investigations and her tumultuous love life.From the Trade Paperback edition.

'Brilliant and addictive . . .Think of The Hunger Games with vampires' Richelle MeadAgainst all odds, 17-year-old Gene has survived in a world where humans have been eaten to near extinction by the general population. Every decade there is a government sponsored hunt. When Gene is selected, he must learn the art of the hunt while eluding his fellow competitors whose suspicions about his true nature are growing . . .

The Jury’s a vigilante organization out to get the bad guys “who escaped prosecution” on an ambitious national scale. But there’s a Crescent City connection. Sure, New Orleans is known for corruption, but suddenly the good guys get a break—an honest police chief. And then someone guns him down. When The Jury takes out the chief’s killer, Detective Skip Langdon’s on the case. But no one cares! After all, the guy was a cop-killer. Skip cares really a lot—because she’s pretty sure The Jury’s the brainchild of her old nemesis Errol Jacomine, self-styled compassionate preacher but suspected psychopath. As an added complication, Jacomine’s sent his crazy son Daniel to kidnap his own daughter, Jacomine’s granddaughter Lovelace, who escapes and runs to her Uncle Isaac in New Orleans. An outsider artist and major oddball, Isaac’s taken a vow of silence. Still, uncle and niece manage to communicate, forming a sinewy bond that could save—or endanger--both their lives. And Langdon comes up with a plan so clever even the FBI can’t shout her down.

Two halves of whole, rare Drachon twins Taggart and Vincent Jennings once shared the weight of being the salvation of their people until Vincent disappears, leaving Tag to bear their people's disappointment alone. Now Vincent is back, demanding Tag help him rescue the one woman neither can live without, but they're going to have to repair their own relationship if they have any hope of convincing her to take a chance on them. Years ago Dr. Brit Mahoney helped develop genetic research that had the potential to enslave the entire Arcane to the Triumvirate and she sacrificed everything she loved to destroy it. Determined to never allow her emotions to make her vulnerable again, she's buried herself in science, refusing to allow herself to succumb to her desire for Taggart Jennings. Then his estranged twin appears and their combined hormones ignites a mating heat that is even more than she can withstand. When it becomes obvious Brit's research was resurrected with fatal consequences, Vincent must reveal the horrible truths of his past to give them any hope of a future.