The Lafitte Affair: A Bruneau Abellard Novel Children's Books on Diseases & Physical Illness "—NPR staff pick

"—NPR staff pick

piece by piece

long-buried secrets come to light as it becomes clear how decisions Minh made in her youth affected the rest of her life—and beyond

and objects all told by author Ben Hoare

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

The Lafitte Affair: A Bruneau Abellard Novel Children's Books on Diseases & Physical Illness "—NPR staff pickWhen 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