I liked this book tremendously. It's set in the same world in which the author's Maker's Song series is set, and the focus of this story is the hoodoo practitioners and motorcycle riding gypsy types called nomads. The setting is at a magical practitioner's Carnival, and someone is killed. Our protagonist, Kallie Riviere, is a hoodoo, a magical practitioner from a tradition developed from sancretization of catholicism and african religious elements. Someone has set a spell to kill Kallie...but it accidentally kills the man in her bed instead and destroys his soul. Whoever it is has a big grudge on, and Kallie is forced to prove her innocence while struggling to figure out what is going on and staying alive. She, a handsome nomad, a dead man, and other friends have a wild ride in New Orleans solving the mystery. Zombie dust, voodoo dolls and a strong creole flavor color this world and the action.

I enjoyed this immensely. I know something about the hoodoo/voodoo/African-based religions and found this book was really dead on in its interpretations of the practitioners' attitudes and many of their beliefs. Not being an expert, I cannot state definitively that it's 100% accurate, but it's comes across as very well researched and brings something little seen (and frequently badly done vis 70s horror where everything non-Christian is satanic) to the urban fantasy milieu. Well done!