Lori Handeland, Rising Moon

Rising Moon

Lori Handeland

St. Martin's Press, January 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 0312938500

In New Orleans, three years ago Katie vanished; her sister, private investigator Anne Lockheart put her life on hold, as she did all the right things involved with a missing person, plus began her own fruitless search to find her missing sibling. Her efforts to find her sister remained futile, until someone left a photo of Katie in Anne's mailbox. Her sis is standing in front of the French Quarter jazz club RISING MOON.

Anne goes undercover obtaining a job at the Rising Moon. However, though she remains obsessed, she finds herself for the first time in three years distracted, as she is attracted to the blind owner-musician John Rodolfo. She thinks he is the key to learn what happened to Katie, though when confronted he denies knowing her. As Anne unravels his secrets, especially his passion for vanishing at night, she realizes she has fallen in love, but finding Katie remains the top priority, and only then can she consider what he really is besides her soul mate.

This is a fascinating paranormal romantic suspense thriller that grips readers from the onset, when Anne sees the photo that invigorates her, and never slows down as she begins to wonder whether her soul mate could be a vicious killing beast, who includes her sister as part of his count. The storyline is fast-paced and filled with action, as Lori Handeland continues her dark moonlit entertaining New Orleans thrillers with another supernatural winner.