Teresa Michael

              It’s just before Mardi Gras, and Jane Byrne, ex-cop and the new Chief Security Officer for New Orleans’ historic St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, is after a graffiti artist busy desecrating the mausoleums of the town’s oldest families. Jane, still dealing with a bad knee and PTSD, has a lot on the line and needs to stop this guy and keep her boss (and his seventies porno mustache) off her back so she can capture the miscreants who keep giving her the slip.  Jane enlists the help of Gigi Pascoe, a transgender pole dancer and part-time sleuth whom Jane met when she moved into Gigi’s parent's garage apartment and, along with Gigi, became involved in solving a series of hate crimes targeting NOLA’s LGBTQ+ community. As they stake out the cemetery late one night, they come across a homeless girl whose brother has gone missing.  Jane and Gigi take the case and uncover a grisly history of missing and mutilated homeless people amidst the pulsating energy of carnival season and corrupt political connections. A Fast-paced read with NOLA history, voodoo, rock-and-roll, and all the seedy fun that is New Orleans. Up Jumps the Devil picks up where Love Power, Reed's first novel in the NOLA series, left off. Sweep this up like Jane rides her Ducati motorcycle speeding through the dark streets of the Crescent City.