Bridge of Souls (Cassidy Blake, #3)

by Victoria Schwab

“And the Axeman of New Orleans,” adds Mom brightly. Jacob shoots me a look. “I really hope axe is a kind of instrument and not—” “He went around chopping people up,” Mom adds. Jacob sighs. “Of course he did.” “Back in 1918, he terrorized the city,” says Dad. “No one felt safe,” says Mom. They’re sliding into that TV show rhythm, even though there are no cameras, just me and Jacob, hanging on the edge of their words. “He was a serial killer,” says Mom, “but he loved jazz, so he sent a letter to the cops and said he wouldn’t strike any house that had a full band playing in it. So for weeks, music filled the city streets, even more than usual. It spilled out of houses day and night, a cacophony of jazz.”

“Spiritists believe in the presence of a spirit realm, and the … entities that inhabit it.”

“But history is written by the victors. How can we know what really happened if we weren’t there? We are, all of us, speculating …”

THE INSPECTERS EPISODE THREE LOCATION: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA “LAND OF LOST SOULS” “Well, that’s promising,” says Jacob, reading over my shoulder as I skim the list of filming locations. 1) THE PLACE D’ARMES 2) MURIEL’S RESTAURANT 3) ST. LOUIS NO. 1, NO. 2, NO. 3 4) LAFAYETTE CEMETERY 5) THE OLD URSULINE CONVENT 6) THE LALAURIE MANSION