The Lafitte Affair: A Bruneau Abellard Novel Children's Books on Diseases & Physical Illness FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith

FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize

not linear

author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January

and objects all told by author Ben Hoare

The Lafitte Affair: A Bruneau Abellard Novel Children's Books on Diseases & Physical Illness FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth GalbraithWhen burglars break into Hope Mausoleum and violate Crypt 1083 A, where the remains of the former Girod Street Cemetery are housed, New Orleans property crimes detective Thibodeaux "Bo" Duplessis is confronted with three confounding questions: Who are the burglars? Why did they break into the crypt? What, if anything, did they take? In need of expertise he does not possess, Bo turns to his childhood friend Bruneau Abellard, a cranky, overweight