This is the third outing for Danni and Quinn. The city was simply perfect for the people I needed for the series-and the people were perfect for NOLA. the list is endless! I have a free booklet up at Amazon that’s a collection of blogs on why I love NOLA for anyone interested. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a guest at the Cornstalk House while mulling Uncle Tom’s Cabin after seeing the slave market and. Tennessee Williams-think A Streetcar Named Desire!-spent a great deal of time at the hotel, as did Eudora Welty, and many more. It’s also a writer’s city-Truman Capote liked to claim he was born in the Monteleone (also on Royal Street) though I think the truth is that his mom went into labor there. Also, the city really lends itself to a paranormal suspense-and has as long as I can remember. Did the setting provide the inspiration for this series, or did Danni Cafferty and Michael Quinn come calling first?Ī bit of both! I was in the city mulling the kind of series I wanted to do and I saw the perfect place for their shop on a corner of Royal Street. In my The Big Thrill interview with Graham, she answers questions about the book and what has made her the writer she is.įor me, New Orleans was like another character in the book, providing the perfect atmosphere and setting for this gripping paranormal romantic suspense. It’s a colorful, atmospheric paranormal with a host of vibrant characters and a great heroine and hero at its heart. The body count continues to rise, with the saxophone of one of the dead men at the center of the mystery-and possibly sending messages from beyond the grave. In this latest outing, an apparent suicide turns out to be one of a number of musicians who have been murdered. Based in New Orleans, Cafferty and Quinn solve unusual crimes that the cops can’t.

My treat this month was THE DEAD PLAY ON, which is the third book in Graham’s Danni Cafferty and Michael Quinn series. Graham is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than one hundred books, boasting a career that has garnered her numerous awards. As a reader, how do you know you’re in for a treat before you even open the book at page one? A quick answer would be to say that it’s written by Heather Graham.

The Hidden by Heather Graham