Moon Over Bourbon Street
Bonnie DeeRomantic suspense
Available from Liquid Silver Books
ISBN: 1-59578-289-3
November 2006
| Rick, a fairly newly changed werewolf owns a detective agency in New Orleans. He handles the usual; cheating spouses and the like, but also occasionally helps the local police in matters of a supernatural nature. One night her finds the body of a young girl branded with a strange mark. He is determined to find who killed her and with his family’s ties to the supernatural community, he makes progress on the case. Angela Chang is nominally the receptionist, but really runs the agency and Rick’s life. She knows his secrets and stays anyway. Angela is contemptuous of all the women in Rick’s life and hides her attraction to him from everyone, but his mother, who like the tarot reader she is, sees everything. Angela is not going to be deceived by yet another smooth southern boy, so she keeps her distance until this case. A woman hires Rick to find out what her husband is doing and the next day the husband hires Angela to follow his ex-showgirl wife. Both meet with men with the strange mark found on the dead girl. When a family friend is murdered and Angela is kidnapped, the matter becomes personal.
This book is a roller coaster ride full of action. The interaction between Rick and Angela is very well done. Angela was cheated out of everything by a cheating ex boyfriend and forced to leave Tulane a semester short of graduation. She is embarrassed to tell her parents what happened and so ends up working for Rick. She is really attracted to him, but as his employee, she sees that he is a womanizer and does not want to be just a number. Rick is having a hard time with his other nature. He is fortunate that his family accepts him and surprised that Angela does, but he is afraid that someday he will hurt someone in wolf form and avoids relationships for that reason. His wolf on the other hand, is very drawn to Angela and goes to her when in trouble. Rick’s family is a lot of fun, from his mother and grandfather to his gay uncle who loves to throw parties. The mystery aspect of the tale is very absorbing, although the climax of the tale is very gory; it really is essential to the plot. Great story!
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
