Black Magic Woman (Time Twisting Historical New Orleans Thriller): New Orleans Paranormal (French Quarter Mystery Book 4)

Burdened by spring floods, malaria and yellow fever, citizens of pre-Civil War New Orleans often turned to voodoo practitioners—African Rosalie, Sanite Dede, Bras Coupe—for protection. None were more powerful, or feared, than Doctor John and Marie Laveau. When private investigator Wyatt Thomas sees a ghost during a hospital visit, he tells his sometimes business partner, voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, about the encounter. She trances him and channels the ghost, soon learning a curse connects him and a long-dead French aristocrat. He also begins a romance with a beautiful woman he may have known in another historical era. He and the ghost are doomed to remain connected forever unless he time travels back to old New Orleans and lifts the curse before midnight on New Year’s Eve. Oh, and while he's at it he fights a duel to the death, helps find Louis Armstrong's cornet and solves a decade-old murder. This historical, time traveling mystery is Wilder's fourth paranormal thriller set in the Vieux Carre that includes Big Easy, City of Spirits, Primal Creatures, and the soon-to-be released River Road.