Rod Davis: 5 books

Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave tradeis the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah,...

The Reverend Corina Youngblood, minister of the African Spiritual Church of Mercy, is a woman powered by Jesus and the santos. Her corner store, St. Jude Lamb of Light Botanica, which caters to the eclectic religious and spiritual needs of New Orleans, is threatened by her Cuban ex-lover and mentor...

On an early Sunday morning walk through the empty streets of the Faubourg Marigny downriver of the French Quarter, maverick journalist and Big Easy transplant Jack Prine discovers the body of a well-dressed black man with a bashed-in skull. Soon Jack is drawn into an emerging web of violence threatening...

Every homeowner knows what a mortgage is but do you? Many people have heard that term on movies, television shows, and commercials but don’t really know what it really means. To put it simply, it’s a loan where you are using your house as collateral. The difference between this and a normal loan...

CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY 20 VENDORS OF VILLAINY Mystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy. Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the...