This author writes under a pseudonym.
Starting over in New Orleans as an FBI agent, Franco Patrese receives a warning from a beautiful woman who is found murdered days later in a style similar to the nineteenth-century ritualistic methods of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau.
When Pittsburgh homicide detective, Franco Patrese, and his partner Mark Beradino are called to a domestic dispute at the lawless Homewood estate events quickly spiral out of control. With two dead, Patrese believes he's got his killer - but things aren't always as simple as they seem.