Sara Gran

This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greatest PI—at least, that's what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silette’s student the brilliant Constance Darling—until Darling was murdered. When a respected DA goes missing she returns to the hurricane-ravaged city to find out why.

You are pitted against the evil Red Queen and her dark minions as she attempts to collect four rubies to rebuild the Blood Crown.

"When one of her best friends gives her a complete astrological reading for Christmas, Mary Forrest is a bit disappointed. She was hoping for a Coach purse, or maybe something in cashmere. But despite Mary's skepticism, the reading proves prophetic.". "Mary's sun sign is ruled by fire, her moon by water, she is told by the Indian astrologer. Her life, so far, has been ruled by the uneasy wariness of someone who's been abandoned by a parent. She's survived 29 years but must finally become an adult, she is informed, because this is the year of her Saturn Return. If she doesn't face her issues now she'll have to wait for the next Saturn Return - another 29 years - to resolve them."--BOOK JACKET.

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. The new voice in Amanda’s head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. A book on demon possession suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.