Beginning a new series by the New York Times best-selling author JOHN RINGO—
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES MEET KILLER DEMONS!
Special: distinguished by some unusual quality . . .
Circumstances: a piece of evidence that indicates the probability or improbability of an event . . .
Barbara Everette, homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi, had the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house, perfect Christian Faith. She cooked and cleaned perfectly and managed all of the chores of the modern suburbanite, toting the kids, running the PTA, teaching kung-fu in the local dojo . . . Perfectly. But perfection has a price and the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to have "one weekend off." God had to grant her that much. It said no where that she was a slave. Waving goodbye to her hapless, entirely undomestic husband, she set out on the quest for a weekend of peace and maybe some authentic Cajun food.
Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockhart, New Orleans Homicide, had a perfect record on his latest case: not a single suspect. And there should be at least five or six, given the DNA traces on the many bodies. Furthermore, his sole really outstanding clue, a mysterious fish scale, had disappeared into the recesses of the FBI Crime Lab. But the old fortune-teller was sending him into the bayou, down in the land of authentic Cajun food, on the track of a mysterious pimp with the admonition to "watch for the Princess." Or die. Barbara and Kelly were heading to a rendezvous that might be fate and might reveal the hand of God. There was more cooking in the swamps than jambalaya. Unknown to either, the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had Special Circumstances.
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Product ReviewSuch an unlikeable protagonist. A 'perfect' housewife with a loser husband gets bored with her perfect life and stumbles blindly into a fight against Evil. Trite and preachy. I expected better from this author.
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Product ReviewI've read this book 3 times. Where's the sequel damnit.
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Product ReviewVery Interesting and great read.
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Product ReviewA bit derivative, perhaps. Or is that homage? Whichever - the Masters (Lovecraft, Poe,et al) did it far better, but this is a very entertaining update, with a bit more fortune on the side of teh forces of light. OTOH, I found the fairly gratuitous inclusion of all the (very thinly disguised) writers and their friends and colleagues to be rather annoying. *shrug* OK, it's the author's privilege. It's an entertaining book anyway - No masterwork, but a good afternoon's read.
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Product ReviewI believe this is one of John's better books. I've read it three times, and it's still very entertaining. Re-readability is one of the cornerstones of a "Five Star" book, in my opinion, and "Princess of Wands" has it in spades.
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Product ReviewI am biased, I like Johnny Ringo, the deadliest pistolier....sorry that's a movie quote. I think Ringo consistently puts out solid reading. The whole 'Soccer Mom vs Evil" is a great concept. I've read a few other stories like this, and Ringo takes his to the next level. I am looking forward to a sequel to this. Come on John, why can't you write faster without sacrificing quality? He lampoons David Drake, one of my favorite authors, in this, and I found it darkly hilarious.
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Product ReviewRingo just keeps getting better!
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Product ReviewDifferent, and I recognized some people I know.
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