Princess of Wands
 Beginning a new series by the
New York Times best-selling author
JOHN RINGO—
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES MEET KILLER DEMONS!
Special: distinguished by some unusual quality . . .
Circumstances: a piece of evidence that indicates the
probability or improbability of an event . . .
Barbara Everette, homemaker living in a small town in
Mississippi, had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children,
perfect house, perfect Christian Faith. She cooked and cleaned perfectly
and managed all of the chores of the modern suburbanite, toting the
kids, running the PTA, teaching kung-fu in the local dojo . . .
Perfectly.
But perfection has a price and the day came when Barbara
snapped. She simply had to have "one weekend off." God had to grant her
that much. It said no where that she was a slave. Waving goodbye to her
hapless, entirely undomestic husband, she set out on the quest for a
weekend of peace and maybe some authentic Cajun food.
Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockhart, New Orleans Homicide, had a
perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect. And there
should be at least five or six, given the DNA traces on the many bodies.
Furthermore, his sole really outstanding clue, a mysterious fish scale,
had disappeared into the recesses of the FBI Crime Lab. But the old
fortune-teller was sending him into the bayou, down in the land of
authentic Cajun food, on the track of a mysterious pimp with the
admonition to "watch for the Princess." Or die.
Barbara and Kelly were
heading to a rendezvous that might be fate and might reveal the hand of
God. There was more cooking in the swamps than jambalaya.
Unknown to
either, the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances.
Cover art by Stephen Hickman
Interior image used by permission. Copyright © Arts Parts/Ron and Joe, Inc.
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