It would be prudent for Reina to walk away before Roman notices her. She is clearly being scapegoated because of her race, her religion, and her proximity to the crime. Moreover, even if Mambo Grenade were evil enough to kill, she’s not stupid enough to dismember someone in the apartment above her shop. But Reina knows that this doesn’t make her a murderer. Mambo Grenade is a business rival and as the spelling of her business name suggests, she follows a different path than that taken by Reina. Hence it is predictable that Mambo Grenade will be blamed for the brutal murder. Frost isn’t stupid or particularly lazy, but he is firmly disapproving of non-Christian religions (said disapproval is the rock on which Frost and Reina’s relationship foundered). It’s awkward that the lead investigator on the case is Reina’s ex, Detective Roman Frost. Why would Sophie travel across New Orleans to engage Reina’s services when she could just ask Mambo Grenade? Reina also discovers something she did not expect: Virgil’s brutally dismembered body in the apartment above he shop. When she arrives at the address given, Reina is sure of something she suspected - Sophie lives above rival priestess Mambo Grenade’s store, Voodoo Real.

Once it is created, Reina heads out to deliver it to Sophie.

After a suitable warning about unintended consequences, Reina agrees to provide Sophie with the poppet.Ĭonstructing the poppet takes time. This sort of magic is a usually a recipe for disaster but it isn’t for Reina. She asks Reina to make her a magical poppet, one that would force Virgil love Sophie (as he would if he were sensible). Sophie adores her boyfriend Virgil, but fears he does not love her to the same degree. Some of her would-be clients are downright sketchy. Many of them operate under a misunderstanding about the purposes to which Vodou may be put. New Orleans provides Reina with a multitude of potential clients. She uses her holy calling to make a living. Her father having brought his family from Haiti to the United States, Reina is also an American. Reina Dumond is a mambo priestess pledged to Erzulie she follows traditions that date to a time before her ancestors were kidnapped and dragged from Benin to Haiti. Henry’s Mambo Reina occult mystery novels. 2022’s The Quarter Storm is the first of Veronica G.

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