The Girl in the Silver Mask

<p>Drake Ramsey is a successful author who has just moved to New Orleans to be with his love the brilliant and now pregnant Zuri Manyika. While Zuri works as a professor at Loyola University Drake spends his days in Treme Coffeehouse contemplating a sequel without a clue his world is about to be turned upside down.</p><p>Drake’s horizons expand when his new friend Adam Boateng relays stories of life in early New Orleans that strangely hint he may have been there himself. After Drake invites his old buddy Gerard Schleiermacher to join them for Halloween he looks forward to experiencing New Orleans at its most outrageous. But just as they learn that Zuri’s old Zimbabwean adversary has escaped from prison Adam becomes a suspect in a murder. Now Drake is left to speculate if Adam is capable of killing if the vengeful prisoner is guilty or if a voodoo priest is responsible. As Drake Zuri and Gerard risk their lives in pursuit of the truth bayous and beignets interweave with second lines and graveyards as a vampire lurks in the shadows. Will Drake ever find the killer?</p><p>In this gripping mystery a best-selling author transforms into an amateur sleuth intent on finding a murderer after a wild Halloween in New Orleans.</p>