It was just a doll, wasn’t it? It didn’t have powers, did it? Powers that could kill?This is the ninth book in the Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery Series by a two time USA Today Best Selling Author.New Orleans is famous for its pralines, beignets, jazz, Bourbon Street, and the French Quarter. But there’s a darker side to the Big Easy, one that involves voodoo and gris-gris.Nicole Rogers recently moved to … gris-gris.
Nicole Rogers recently moved to Red Cedar from New Orleans. She’d lost weight, became engaged, and had a new job as the manager of a local bank in the small town. But when she found voodoo dolls in her gym locker, work desk, and on her front porch, she was scared. She knew what receiving the dolls meant – someone wanted to hurt her or kill her, and she was right. A few days later, Nicole’s body was found on her front porch with a voodoo doll next to it. She’d been murdered.
What is the connection between Nicole’s murder and the voodoo dolls? Liz Lucas, an amateur sleuth, is determined to find the connection and catch the killer. While on a trip to New Orleans to attend a cooking school known for its Cajun-Creole style of cooking, she learns a lot from a gris-gris doctor who specializes in voodoo, hexes, spells, and superstitions.
But who would want to kill Nicole? Was it the bank employee Nicole fired? What about Nicole’s sister, who had legally changed her name to Marie Leveau (the Queen of Voodoo in New Orleans)? Or Candace Norgan, the woman her fiancé dropped when he fell in love with Nicole? Or even Maddie, Nicole’s friend and the Assistant Manager at the bank?
Join Liz and her dog Winston as they search for the killer.
As always, plenty of mouth-watering recipes!
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This book freaked me out!
I guess if you’re from the New Orlean’s area voodoo might not make the hair stand straight up on your arms, but I’m a northwestern girl and this is scary sh*t!
When Liz’s friend mentions receiving dolls with pins sticking out of their bodies, Liz is intrigued. But when her friend turns up dead- strangled the same as the last doll she received- things get serious.
Liz takes a trip to New Orleans and learns about black magic from a gris-gris master. The danger circles closer to home and Liz must pull together all her sleuthing skills to solve the crime before anyone else gets hurt.
An entertaining who-done-it with a surprise ending!
I give Murdered by Superstition 4 lovely kisses
This story was different than Dianne’s other books and kept me guessing until the end who did it.
This review is for the audio book.
This is another fun easy cozy mystery by this author, full of food to make your mouth water, a well trained dog and a mystery to keep you guessing. This is part of a series that is well worth a listen and can be picked up and put down in any order. I liked the New Orleans theme throughout the book and It made It very different from the rest of the series and the author has obviously been there or done her homework in order to write this story. The mystery was interesting and I liked the different choice of suspects and motives, although I did think for someone to have come from New Orleans Nicole would have taken the threat from the Voodoo dolls more seriously and acted accordingly. Otherwise a good mystery.
When Judy comes to stay at her friend Liz’s B&B and spar retreat she likes to balance out all the treatments with a session at the gym, where she meets Nicole. Nicole has recently moved to Red Cedar for the position of bank manager and consequently doesn’t know anyone. This makes It all the harder to understand why she would keep finding voodoo dolls dressed up to look like her, wherever she goes. Judy worried about her new friend, she asks Liz to find out what she can about voodoo dolls on her up coming cooking trip to New Orleans and to accompany her to her house when she can’t be reached. She can’t be reached because someone has killed her and left another doll. The Sheriff is more worried about issuing enough traffic tickets than some doll and getting a pay rise over investigating a murder. So while Liz is visiting the big easy she can’t help but do some investigating in to voodoo, hex’s and dark magic, especially when Nicole’s boyfriend starts to receive the same gifts. Can Liz find the killer? Or is she going to need some help and magic of her own to keep everybody safe?
I liked the narrator, she did sound a bit younger than I imagined Liz but her good performance soon had me forgetting that fact.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review
I loved this book as i have all of her books. Using New Orleans and Voo Doo as a
“hook” was really interesting. I loved them going to New Orleans for the cooking school and then going home to take care of things. I didn’t see the ending coming but i loved it. The intensity and the twisted kind of story were rage turners. Another great book by Diane Harmon.
Ginny Schmidt